Software Engineer
Stripe·New York·United States·Backend
Stripe is hiring a Software Engineer in New York. Posted 2026-05-21; applications close 2026-07-20 (in 59 days).
Role details
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes to design, build, test, and ship great code daily.
- Build a great customer experience centered around navigating and actioning on products for internal teams and Stripe users using our infrastructure.
- Scope and lead medium- to large-technical projects that align with Stripe’s broad strategic initiatives.
- Develop and execute short- and long-term roadmaps, making effective technical trade-offs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
- Deliver value through a collaborative approach with customers and cross-functional stakeholders across Stripe.
- Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack. This includes Ruby, TypeScript, Scala, and internal tooling.
Who you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 1 year of software development experience. Qualifying experience may be gained before, during, or after education.
- 1 year of experience in designing and building software solutions in Ruby, TypeScript, Python, Scala, Java, C/C++, Haskell, OCaml, or React.
- 1 year of experience in designing and building software using Event Monster, Cron, GraphQL, gRPC, Airflow, Spark, or Presto/SQL queries or integration with external libraries or APIs.
- 1 year of experience in designing and solving software problems using advanced algorithms and data structures.
- 6 months of experience in designing and implementing inter-process communication, memory management techniques, file systems, storage management, and addressing concurrency and synchronization challenges using system-level programming.
Salary: $156,800.00 - $235,200.00/yr.
This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.
40 hrs/week
Up to 50% remote work permitted.
Multiple Positions Available.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. NY14
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