Backend Engineer

Stripe

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Hybrid

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $156,800–$235,200 / yr
Posted: 73 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $196k

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This role pays more than 54% of similar roles. Most pay $144,262–$225,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $196k versus about $185k for comparable roles.

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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 131 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 128 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Backend Engineer

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As a Backend Engineer, Link, you will join the Link engineering organization to build and design the next generation of digital wallet products. You will be responsible for expanding the product suite and supporting infrastructure for secure online payments and digital transactions. Your daily work involves debugging and solving critical production issues across multiple levels of the stack, mentoring other engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to build new features. You must demonstrate strong coding skills in any programming language and possess the ability to work across varying technologies and stacks. The role focuses on solving technical problems within large-scale financial tracking systems and cloud-based services. You will contribute to improving internal engineering standards and tooling while ensuring low-latency transactions and intelligent systems protect consumers and merchants.

What does a Backend Engineer earn?

Median $206000 from 33 postings across 18 companies.

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Skills

AI Agentic Workflows

What you'll do

Design and build next-generation Stripe products to support high-growth company and customer needs.
Debug and resolve critical production issues across multiple levels of the technology stack.
Mentor other engineers to support their professional growth and development.
Build new features at scale while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
Work as a backend specialist across varying technologies and stacks to solve complex problems.
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions for evolving user needs.

What we're looking for

2–10+ years of industry software engineering experience excluding internships or co-ops.
Strong coding skills in any programming language.
Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams to contribute to peer success.
Ability to work with a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Interest in working as a backend specialist across varying technologies and stacks.
Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems (preferred).
Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (preferred).
Experience with, or enthusiasm for, building with AI and agentic workflows (preferred).

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