Software Engineer, Balance Abstraction

Stripe· Seattle, WA· greenhouse· published 05/08/2026
Must-have:TypeScriptJavaRubyGraphQLFinTech

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

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

#LI-DNI