This role pays more than
95%
of similar roles. Most pay
$198,000–$251,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$280k
versus about
$224k
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 Staff Software Engineer, API Platform, you will join the infrastructure team responsible for building and expanding service frameworks to ensure payment systems, fraud detection, and other products remain reliable, performant, and scalable. You will serve as a technical lead, managing a team of engineers while collaborating with product engineering organizations to advance service-oriented architecture adoption. Your daily work involves designing high-performance infrastructure products, overseeing the full development lifecycle from planning to delivery, and providing hands-on leadership in architecture, design, and incident response. The role requires proficiency in Java, Ruby, Python, or Go, along with experience in API design, abstractions, and frameworks. You will solve complex problems involving deployment, load balancers, web frameworks, databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes to create robust interfaces for thousands of engineers across the organization.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $202800 from 326 postings across 28 companies.