This role pays more than
95%
of similar roles. Most pay
$184,649–$254,750
— the shaded band above.
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
148 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$201,150–$295,300
across 146 roles with salary data.
Staff Software Engineer, Money Movement Platform joins the Money Movement team to drive the technical vision for moving money at a global scale. This role involves defining the technical roadmap, designing and building scalable infrastructure, and creating future-proof interfaces for core financial APIs like balances, transfers, and payouts. The engineer will manage complex systems that handle billions of requests while ensuring reliability, safety, and cost-effectiveness across various payment networks. Key responsibilities include performing code reviews, mentoring senior talent, and resolving critical production issues across multiple stack levels. The ideal candidate possesses over ten years of experience in distributed backend systems and high-availability architecture. They must demonstrate expertise in API design, cross-functional leadership, and navigating complex financial and regulatory requirements to solve problems related to transaction processing, ledgering, settlement, and compliance-aware system design.
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