# Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Stripe

Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Stripe in Seattle, WA. Remote, paying $206k–$286k. Posted September 24, 2026.

- Company: Stripe
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Workplace: Remote
- Pay: $206k–$286k
- Experience: 5+ years
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?gh_jid=8230952
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/senior-software-engineer-backend-stripe-ar1awk

## Requirements

- 5 years of experience programming in Java, Scala, or Python;
- 5 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable distributed systems;
- 5 years of experience debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack;
- 5 years of experience with different testing tools and frameworks including JUnit, Mockito, and TestNG;
- 4 years of experience developing complex SQL queries, analyzing datasets and designing large-scale data pipelines;
- 4 years of experience working in fintech domain;
- 4 years of experience leading cross-team projects and building alignment on multi-team technical direction; and
- 1 year experience working with Apache Spark or similar modern Big Data technologies.

## Description

### **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**

- Building and operating critical, large-scale systems that manage massive volumes of financial information, to fulfill business goals for Stripe and its partners;

- Navigate a complex fintech environment with numerous compliance regulations, translating internal and external business needs into robust software requirements and scalable distributed systems;

- Lead cross- functional alignment and provide technical direction for multi-team projects;

- Build large-scale (petabyte-size) financial data platforms, solutions, and pipelines using Big Data technologies and distributed systems;

- Debugging production issues across the stack, analyzing complex datasets and designing large-scale data pipelines using modern Big Data technologies to ensure reliable, high-performance solutions;

- Executing projects related to insights into Stripe’s financial performance across multiple Stripe products;

- Work on systems critical to Stripe's future financial operations, with impact over billions of dollars of payment volume;

- Deeply understand the design and architecture of modern payments and financial technology across countries; and

- Leverage experience with monitoring, incident handling, debugging in production environments to ensure data pipeline health and SLOs, while reducing operational toil via automation.

### **Who you are**

### **Minimum requirements**

Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Security, or a related field, plus five (5) years of related work experience in Software Engineering.

Must also have experience in each of the following:

- 5 years of experience programming in Java, Scala, or Python;

- 5 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable distributed systems;

- 5 years of experience debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack;

- 5 years of experience with different testing tools and frameworks including JUnit, Mockito, and TestNG;

- 4 years of experience developing complex SQL queries, analyzing datasets and designing large-scale data pipelines;

- 4 years of experience working in fintech domain;

- 4 years of experience leading cross-team projects and building alignment on multi-team technical direction; and

- 1 year experience working with Apache Spark or similar modern Big Data technologies.

 

Salary: $206,086.00 - $285,600.00/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

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. **WA80**

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