Software Engineer

Location: Seattle

Department: Global Operations

Who we are

About Stripe 

Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most 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

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s engineering teams using Java, Ruby, Scala, and Go
• Build software infrastructure, including developing, testing, and deploying it
• Design and develop software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design
• Engineer payments integration with various financial partners software systems
• Design APIs and underlying data models to support complex financial abstractions and multi-party integrations, enabling flexible billing and settlement configurations across international markets
• Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints
• Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale
• Build new systems to securely store sensitive data; Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Integrate observability tools and alerting mechanisms (Datadog, Prometheus) into high-traffic production systems, defining SLAs and real-time diagnostics to meet the reliability standards required by financial partners
• Mentor junior engineers, lead technical design reviews, and establish best practices in code quality, system design, resilience engineering, and deployment strategies across the billing infrastructure group

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field, plus 2 years of Software development experience.

Position also requires the following:

• 2 years of experience working with Java, Scala, Python and AWS
• 2 years of experience implementing industry standard design patterns
• 2 years of software engineering experience building full-stack web applications at scale
• 2 years of experience with database management
• 2 years of experience using SQL and related query languages to perform data analysis

Salary: $156,800 – $235,200/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

50% Telecommuting 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. WA25 #LI-DNI