Software Engineer, Balance Abstraction
Stripe
Posted: May 8, 2026
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Quick Summary
We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our team in Seattle, WA who can build high-quality software with a strong focus on abstraction and scalability.
Required Skills
Job Description
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe 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
• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
• Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers.
• Analyze product requirements, user needs and feedback and translate them into technical specifications and determine the feasibility of design, taking into account cost and time constraints.
• Review API launches and library shapes for other teams to ensure that backwards and forward compatibility, coherent patterns, and extensibility meet our quality standards.
• Act as the team’s representative during technical meetings, and understand how their systems interact with the broader landscape within the company.
• Mentor early-career engineers to help them grow and spin up into independent engineers.
• Construct core engineering tenets and design principles for their team’s projects.
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
• Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, plus 3 years of software developer or related work experience.
• Must also have 3 years of experience in each of the following:
• Building software solutions using Ruby, Java, and Typescript;
• Defining storage schemas for relational, document or columnar databases;
• Querying data stores using SQL;
• Building and integrating service endpoints using GRPC, REST,or GraphQL; and
• Building systems integrated with event processing technologies including SQS or Kafka.
Salary: $190,400 - $285,600/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. WA03
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