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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

StripeSoftwareOperations
Pay
$206K–$286K
per year
Work mode
Hybrid
Full Time
Location
Experience
5+ yrs
Bachelor's

Seattle, WA at a glance

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What you need

  • 5+ yrs Java/Scala/Python programming
  • 5+ yrs scalable distributed systems design
  • 5+ yrs production debugging across stack
  • 4+ yrs fintech domain experience
  • 4+ yrs leading cross-team projects

What you'll do

  • Build and operate large-scale financial systems
  • Navigate fintech compliance, translate to scalable systems
  • Lead cross-functional alignment for multi-team projects
  • Build petabyte-scale financial data platforms and pipelines
  • Ensure data pipeline health, SLOs, reduce toil via automation

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

  • Building and operating critical, large-scale systems that manage massive volumes of financial information, to fulfill business goals for Stripe and its partners;
  • Navigate a complex fintech environment with numerous compliance regulations, translating internal and external business needs into robust software requirements and scalable distributed systems;
  • Lead cross- functional alignment and provide technical direction for multi-team projects;
  • Build large-scale (petabyte-size) financial data platforms, solutions, and pipelines using Big Data technologies and distributed systems;
  • Debugging production issues across the stack, analyzing complex datasets and designing large-scale data pipelines using modern Big Data technologies to ensure reliable, high-performance solutions;
  • Executing projects related to insights into Stripe’s financial performance across multiple Stripe products;
  • Work on systems critical to Stripe's future financial operations, with impact over billions of dollars of payment volume;
  • Deeply understand the design and architecture of modern payments and financial technology across countries; and
  • Leverage experience with monitoring, incident handling, debugging in production environments to ensure data pipeline health and SLOs, while reducing operational toil via automation.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Security, or a related field, plus five (5) years of related work experience in Software Engineering.

Must also have experience in each of the following:

  • 5 years of experience programming in Java, Scala, or Python;
  • 5 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable distributed systems;
  • 5 years of experience debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack;
  • 5 years of experience with different testing tools and frameworks including JUnit, Mockito, and TestNG;
  • 4 years of experience developing complex SQL queries, analyzing datasets and designing large-scale data pipelines;
  • 4 years of experience working in fintech domain;
  • 4 years of experience leading cross-team projects and building alignment on multi-team technical direction; and
  • 1 year experience working with Apache Spark or similar modern Big Data technologies.

Salary: $206,086.00 - $285,600.00/yr.

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions / sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% Telecommuting permitted.

Multiple Positions Available. 

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA80

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About Stripe

Stripe supports online and in-person payments across numerous currencies and payment methods, along with tools for subscriptions, invoicing, and usage-based billing models. Stripe also offers card issuing capabilities, treasury services, and programmable money movement, including support for stablecoins and other crypto-related transactions.

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