This role pays more than
54%
of similar roles. Most pay
$144,350–$214,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$178k
versus about
$179k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology
Stripe currently has
173 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$190,400–$285,600
across 171 roles with salary data.
As a Backend Engineer, Core Technology, you will join the Stripe Infrastructure team to build and maintain foundational systems that ensure reliability, scale, performance, and cost efficiency. You will design, build, test, and ship code daily while participating in roadmap planning and debugging production issues across multiple layers of the stack. Your work involves developing critical infrastructure such as compute, networking, distributed caching, data serving, and developer productivity tools. To succeed, you must possess strong software engineering skills and experience building large-scale distributed systems using languages like Go, Java, or C/C++. You will apply your knowledge of well-factored algorithms and common data structures to solve complex technical problems while collaborating with stakeholders to improve the internal and external customer experience across various core infrastructure domains.
Go
Java
C
C++
Distributed Systems
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Presto
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Microservices
Data Pipelines
Machine Learning
LLMs
Algorithms
Data Structures