# Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Stripe

- Company: Stripe
- What the company does: Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: https://stripe.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?gh_jid=8230952
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/stripe-senior-software-engineer-backend/

## About the role

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. 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

## What they're looking for

- 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,

Tags: Global Operations