Software Engineer

Stripe

Stripe

Software Engineering

South San Francisco, CA, USA

USD 213,512-285,600 / year + Equity

Posted on Apr 14, 2026

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

  • Build and manage user facing products and platforms to lower Stripe’s financial and regulatory risk while retaining a best in class user experience
  • Translate business problems into scalable engineering solutions
  • Collaborate with stakeholders from engineering, product, policy, legal, operations, and data science teams
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes; Identify, analyze, and quickly address emerging risk patterns.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field plus 5 years of software engineering experience.
  • 5 years of experience building software solutions in Python, Ruby, Java or similar;
  • 5 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable systems;
  • 5 years of experience translating business needs into software requirements and designs;
  • 5 years of experience debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack;
  • 5 years of experience with distributed systems.

Salary: $213,512 - $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

Full remote work 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.CA07

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Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $213,512 - $285,600. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

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.

Office locations

South San Francisco HQ

Job type

Full time