Senior Software Engineer, Product Velocity

Stripe · Seattle, WA · Posted

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

  • Design and build internal products used daily by engineering, product, and cross-functional teams across Stripe.
  • Own end-to-end systems—spanning frontend, backend, data, and integrations—that remove bottlenecks and meaningfully increase product development velocity.
  • Collaborate with partner teams to understand workflows, define requirements, and build tools that improve iteration speed, quality, and clarity in the product lifecycle.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelors progressive work experience in software development, or a related occupation.

Must also have five (5) years of experience with/in each of the following:

  • Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining full-stack or backend web applications;
  • Programming language including Java, Go, Python, Ruby, TypeScript, or JavaScript;
  • Building and consuming REST or gRPC APIs;
  • Working with databases including PostgreSQL, mySQL, or NoSQL systems;
  • Cloud environments including AWS, or GCP;
  • Frontend frameworks including React, Vue or building product UIs;
  • Owning large components or projects and driving alignment with cross-functional partners; and
  • Debugging.

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. WA49

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About this role

Stripe is hiring for the role of Senior Software Engineer, Product Velocity in Seattle, WA. The title points to a senior role. It mentions JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Vue, Python and Java and more.

Skills mentioned

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Vue
  • Python
  • Java
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • REST APIs
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud

How to prepare your application

  • Use these exact words in your resume where they are true for you: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Vue and Python. Applicant tracking systems match on them.
  • Pick two or three projects that use the technologies named in this posting and describe what you built and its result in one line each.
  • Be ready to explain your own code: why you chose a design, what went wrong and how you fixed it.
  • Practise the basics the role needs (data structures, API design, debugging) and keep a link to your code on GitHub.

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