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Software Engineer - Payins Card Networks

Stripe · Seattle · United States

$156,800–$235,200 per yearSoftware Engineer

Posted: 9/14/2026 · Last checked: 10/12/2026

Job description

Quoted in full from Stripe's job posting. Gavroche does not edit it.

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

  • Build, develop, test, and deploy software infrastructure; 
  • Modify existing software to correct errors or to improve its performance; 
  • Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation; 
  • Build, test, and maintain software development for the company’s various codebases to integrate with external financial partners;
  • Consult and advise other peers on build system choices; 
  • Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints;
  • Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale;
  • Implement unit, functional, and integration tests to prevent bugs and regressions; 
  • Set the mission and perform short and medium term planning and prioritization for an engineering team;
  • Build, test, and maintain software for card payments integrations across the company’s codebases to communicate with external card networks and payment processors using industry-standard protocols; 
  • Consult with and advise peers on integration architecture and payment processing implementation choices; and
  • Analyze user needs and payment processing requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints for card network integrations

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus two (2) years of experience in Software Development.

Must also have two (2) years of experience in each of the following:

  • Writing and debugging computer code;
  • Writing software to issue and serve HTTP requests;
  • Java, Ruby, Scala, or Python; and
  • API, REST, Soap, Agile, Jira, GIT, AngularJS, or NodeJS.

Must also have one (1) year of experience in each of the following:

  • Payment processing in payins acquiring financial systems related to authorization and clearing flows with major global card networks including Visa and Mastercard;
  • Data modeling of card features in acquiring payments for financial processing systems;
  • Working with ISO 8583 messages, and data warehouse queries; and
  • Cloud.

Salary: $156,800 - $235,200/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. WA71

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