Stripe

Software Engineer, Backend Engineer- Credit Coverage

Stripe · New York, NY
New York, NY $156K–$235K Posted 2026-08-18
Salary
$156K–$235K
Type
Full-time
Experience
2+ yr

Who we are

About Stripe #LI-DNI

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

Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end.

Collaborate with engineers, designers, data scientists, and product managers to develop new features and products.

Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.

  • Build elegant APIs and user experiences that enable merchants to run and scale their businesses on top of Stripe.

Contribute to the design and architecture of the next generation of Stripe’s infrastructure, to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers for years to come.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, plus 2 years of experience in Software development.

Must also have two years of experience in each of the following:

  • Working across the stack and navigate codebases with different languages and tools;
  • Developing user-facing experiences and writing queries for analyzing experiment results;
  • Programming Language including Ruby, Java, Scala and SQL;
  • Cloud based services including gRPC, GraphQL and AWS;
  • Proficiency with MongoDB, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus and AWS; and
  • macOS and Unix-based operating systems.

Salary: $156,800.00 - $235,200.00/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. NY44

#LI-DNI

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This role’s midpoint $196K vs. market median $180K for Engineering roles
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above median
Based on 23,000+ Engineering roles with disclosed salary ranges tracked on NewJob.
Stripe

Stripe

Fintech · Private · San Francisco, USA

Stage & Valuation
Private · $91.5B
Key Investors
Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst
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