This role pays more than
93%
of similar roles. Most pay
$198,000–$259,625
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$280k
versus about
$229k
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.
Staff Software Engineer, Card Issuing and Payments joins the Issuing team to manage the end-to-end card issuing product, including backend services, APIs, and dashboard components for spend, debit, and charge cards. This role involves defining multi-year technical strategies, designing scalable systems for authorization flows and spending controls, and leading infrastructure investments for geographic expansion and new card categories like stablecoins. The engineer will build and maintain high-scale systems handling billions of money movement requests while making critical build-versus-reuse decisions. Key requirements include over ten years of experience, expertise in distributed backend systems that are financially correct, and strong API design skills to simplify complex regulatory requirements. The role focuses on the technical challenges of financial infrastructure, specifically managing the cardholder lifecycle across commercial and consumer segments within a high-volume, event-driven architecture environment.
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