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This role pays more than
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of similar roles. Most pay
$198,790–$259,500
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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
131 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$190,400–$285,600
across 128 roles with salary data.
Staff Software Engineer, Money Movement Platform joins the Money Movement team to drive the technical vision for global money movement. This role involves defining the technical roadmap, designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and large-scale systems that handle billions of requests. You will ensure infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and meets SLAs while shaping future-proof interfaces for product teams. Key responsibilities include running and code reviewing key components, mentoring senior engineering talent, and solving critical production issues across multiple stack levels. You must possess experience architecting complex distributed backend systems that are financially correct and highly available. The work focuses on core financial APIs like balances, transfers, and payouts, as well as abstracting global payment networks to manage speed, currency, and cost requirements.
What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?
Median $216000 from 270 postings across 57 companies.
Java
Ruby
Python
TypeScript
Kafka
Flyte
Airflow
Distributed Systems
API Design
ML Systems
Model Serving
Training Pipelines
Observability
Full-Stack
Infrastructure