JOB AT STRIPE
Software Engineer, Backend
- Company: Stripe
- Location: Remote (US)
- Posted
- Pay listed by the employer: $206,086–$285,600 a year
- Compare pay: Software Engineer salaries · Stripe salaries
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- Application form: from 49 forms we checked, 44 ask for a cover letter; about 12 questions only Stripe asks per form. What it asks
- Pay benchmark: Software Engineer postings that list pay show a $175K median (13,852 postings)
- Pay benchmark: Stripe postings that list pay show a $218K median (98 postings)
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Job description
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
- Develop scalable computer systems that manage a large volume of information and use them to fulfill business goals for the company and its partners.
- Improve backend scalability and performance by integrating lightweight backend framework, overhauling APIs and optimizing database systems.
- Design and build tools that ingest and process signals from various sources to make them more accessible for the company’s partner teams.
- Design and implement logging and data visualization system for backend APIs.
- Diagnose and resolve software issues reported from production, automated testing, QA testing and customers.
- Design and implement scalable and reliable automated testing suites to reduce manual Quality Assurance tasks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and streamlined software development and deployment processes with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
Must have a Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, plus six (6) years of software development experience.
Must also have four (4) years of experience in each of the following:
- Building software solutions in Java, C++, Python, or Ruby;
- Designing, building and maintaining scalable systems;
- Translating business needs into software requirements and designs;
- Debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack;
- Distributed systems; and
- Design and implementation of scalable high-performance RESTful microservices.
Salary: $206,086 - $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. WA58
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What the Stripe application asks
From 49 application forms we checked.
- Location (City)
- Please select the country where you currently reside.
- What is your current or previous job title?
- Who is your current or previous employer?
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- Contact details: 49 of 49 forms
- Resume or CV: 49 of 49 forms
- Cover letter: 44 of 49 forms
- Work authorization: 47 of 49 forms
- Visa sponsorship: 48 of 49 forms
- Voluntary self-identification (EEO): 45 of 49 forms
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