Staff Software Engineer, API Platform
Stripe
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This role pays more than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $163,725–$238,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $280k versus about $201k for comparable roles.
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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.
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As a Staff Software Engineer, Service Infrastructure, you will join the Service Infrastructure team as a technical lead to build and expand service frameworks that ensure payment systems, fraud detection, and other products remain resilient and scalable. You will manage a team of engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering organizations, and advance service-oriented architecture adoption across the company. Your daily work involves designing high-performance infrastructure products, managing the development lifecycle from planning to delivery, and providing hands-on technical leadership in areas like architecture, design, and incident response. You will utilize skills in API design, abstractions, and frameworks while working with technologies including databases, Kafka, Kubernetes, and web frameworks. Candidates must be proficient in at least one of Java, Ruby, Python, or Go to solve complex problems within the service infrastructure platform.
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