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 foundational platforms that ensure reliability, scale, performance, and cost efficiency for critical systems. You will design, build, test, and ship code daily while participating in roadmap planning and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver value across various internal and external customer segments. Your work involves debugging production issues across multiple stack levels and developing infrastructure for areas such as core compute, networking, data serving, developer productivity, and service platforms. The role requires proficiency in programming languages like Go, Java, or C/C++ to develop well-factored algorithms and large-scale distributed systems. You will solve complex technical challenges involving high-scale services, low-latency microservices, and data pipelines while utilizing tools such as Trino, Presto, Apache Pinot, Hive Metastore, and ElasticSearch.
Remote (Chicago, IL)134 days ago
$142,600–$213,800
Go
Java
C++
Distributed Systems
Microservices
Data Pipelines
Machine Learning
Trino
Presto
Apache Pinot
Hive Metastore
ElasticSearch
LLMs
Algorithms
Data Structures