Stripe

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Stripe • $206K — $285K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems Security, or related field required.
  • 5 years experience in Software Engineering required.
  • Proficient in Java, Scala, or Python with 5 years of experience.
  • 5 years experiencing designing and maintaining scalable distributed systems.
  • 5 years debugging production issues across services and environments.
  • Experienced with testing tools like JUnit, Mockito, and TestNG for at least 5 years.
  • 4 years of working experience in the fintech domain and leading cross-team projects.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate large-scale systems to manage financial information.
  • Translate business needs into robust software requirements in a fintech environment.
  • Lead technical direction for multi-team projects, ensuring alignment.
  • Develop large-scale financial data platforms and pipelines using Big Data technologies.
  • Debug production issues and analyze complex data sets for reliable solutions.
  • Execute projects that provide insights into Stripe's financial performance across its products.
  • Work on critical systems impacting billions of dollars in payment volume.

Benefits

  • Equity opportunities and company bonuses.
  • 401(k) plan for retirement savings.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Wellness stipends to support health and well-being.
Full Job Description
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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About Stripe

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Stripe powers businesses all over the world, from the new startup that just launched yesterday to the Fortune 500 companies that we all know and love. Stripe is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Dublin, London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, and more.
Learn more about Stripe
Size
4,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2010

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