Stripe
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
$206K–$286K
Seattle, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
US-PERM - Experience
- Five years of related Software Engineering experience; specified experience requirements range from one to five years.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Security, or a related field.
About the job
Builds and operates large-scale financial data systems and pipelines, leading technical direction across teams to support Stripe’s financial operations and performance insights.
What you'll do
- Build and operate distributed financial data platforms, solutions, and pipelines.
- Debug production issues and maintain data pipeline reliability, performance, and SLOs.
- Lead cross-team alignment and provide technical direction for multi-team projects.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Security, or a related field.
- Five years of related work experience in Software Engineering.
- Five years programming in Java, Scala, or Python; designing scalable distributed systems; debugging production issues; and using JUnit, Mockito, and TestNG.
- Four years developing complex SQL queries and large-scale data pipelines, working in fintech, and leading cross-team projects; one year with Apache Spark or similar modern Big Data technologies.
Pay
USD $206,086.00 - $285,600.00/yr. (base salary)
Tools
Java, Scala, Python, JUnit, Mockito, TestNG, SQL, Apache Spark
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