Software Engineer, Balance Abstraction

Hiring.fm; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 190,400 - 285,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Software Engineer to design and maintain high-performance APIs and services that handle billions of requests. This role involves analyzing user needs, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring compatibility in API launches. The candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and at least 3 years of experience in software development using Ruby, Java, and Typescript.

The position offers a salary range of $190,400 - $285,600 per year with additional benefits including equity and medical coverage. 50% telecommuting is permitted.

Qualifications

• 3 years of software developer or related work experience.
• Experience building software solutions using Ruby, Java, and Typescript.
• Experience defining storage schemas for databases.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs and services.
• Analyze product requirements and translate them into specifications.
• Mentor early-career engineers.

Skills

Ruby

Java

Typescript

SQL

GRPC

REST

GraphQL

SQS

Kafka

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Job description

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.

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