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This role pays more than
95%
of similar roles. Most pay
$193,925–$246,750
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$280k
versus about
$220k
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
131 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$190,400–$285,600
across 128 roles with salary data.
As a Staff Software Engineer, API Platform, you will join the API Platform team to serve as a Technical Lead for one of the company's most impactful infrastructure groups. You will lead a team of engineers to advance service-oriented architecture adoption, providing mentorship, architectural guidance, and roadmap planning. Your daily work involves designing and delivering high-performance infrastructure products, including service frameworks, deployment tools, load balancers, and web frameworks. You will utilize proficiency in Java, Ruby, Python, or Go to build scalable systems involving databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes. This role solves the complex problem of creating reliable, performant interfaces that empower thousands of engineers to build services for payment systems and fraud detection while ensuring high availability across the entire service infrastructure platform.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $202800 from 409 postings across 38 companies.
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