This role pays more than
79%
of similar roles. Most pay
$168,907–$230,625
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$238k
versus about
$200k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
173 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$190,400–$285,600
across 171 roles with salary data.
As a Backend Engineer, Privy, you will join the engineering team to design and build backend systems powering wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure at scale. You will create platform primitives and APIs that enable internal teams to build faster while leading complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems. Your daily work involves improving the scalability, reliability, and performance of core platforms while shaping technical direction through high-leverage engineering. The role requires expertise in Node, React, and AWS to develop blockchain abstractions, hardware enclaves, and multi-region low latency APIs. You must possess experience in modern API development, data modeling, database migrations, and infrastructure configuration. Ideal candidates have a background in payments, fintech, or crypto, along with experience in authentication, identity, security, and interacting with smart contracts within an API-driven business environment.