
Stripe
South San Francisco, California, United States
5K-10K Employees
Software Engineer
Chicago, IL
$173k – $259.6k /yr
Posted on Aug 17, 2026
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 Stripe and its partners.
- Design, implement and deploy adaptable rules systems that use this information to output internal assessments, perform scoring, and derive automated actions for mitigating financial risk and increase the efficiency of Stripe’s global risk mitigation program.
- Design and build tools that ingest and process signals from various sources to make them more accessible for our partner teams.
- Participate in all parts of the software development workflow and see the projects through to completion, including their large-scale deployment.
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
- Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Stripe’s engineering teams.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field plus 4 years of experience in Software Development or a related occupation. Employer is willing to accept a 3 or 4 year US or foreign degree.
Must also have 4 years of experience in each of the following:
- Building software solutions in Python, Ruby, Objective C, C++, or similar;
- 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; and,
- Distributed systems.
Salary: $173,000 - $259,600/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. IL40
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About Stripe
Founded in 2009 by brothers John and Patrick Collison, Stripe is a technology company dedicated to building the economic infrastructure of the Internet. As a leading platform for commercial finance, Stripe empowers millions of businesses—from global enterprises to ambitious startups—to process payments, drive revenue, and unlock new growth opportunities.
Today, Stripe is expanding its team, offering opportunities for software engineers, infrastructure engineers and payments engineers to shape...
Job overview
Compensation
$173k – $259.6k /yr
Employment type
Full Time
Experience level
Mid Level
Work type
On Site
Department
Global Operations
Posted
on Aug 17, 2026
Financials
Type
private
Annual Revenue
$1B-$10B
Market Cap
--
Amount Raised
$2B+
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