This role pays more than
90%
of similar roles. Most pay
$150,187–$214,500
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$246k
versus about
$182k
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
145 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$199,400–$295,300
across 143 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, you will join the team to build and operate critical, large-scale systems that manage massive volumes of financial information. You will navigate a complex fintech environment to translate business needs into robust software requirements and scalable distributed systems while providing technical direction for multi-team projects. Your daily work involves building petabyte-size financial data platforms, designing large-scale data pipelines, and debugging production issues across the stack to ensure high performance and reliability. The role requires expertise in Java, Scala, or Python, along with experience in Big Data technologies like Apache Spark, and testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, and TestNG. You will also develop complex SQL queries to analyze datasets while managing systems critical to financial operations involving significant payment volumes across various international markets.
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Java
Object-Oriented Programming
Linux
Cloud Infrastructure
SaaS
Data Modeling
Schema Design
Networking (L3-L7)
Monitoring
Distributed Systems
Software Development Lifecycle
Algorithms
Data Structures