About the posting
“Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field, plus four (4) years of experience in Software Engineering.”
Read the full posting on Stripe's site
Seen live Oct 27, 2026; first seen Oct 6, 2026.
Pay in context
This posting lists $190,400 to $285,600 a year, a midpoint of $238,000.
The midpoint is higher than 65 percent of software engineering postings in New York, NY that list pay.
New York has a pay transparency law: covered employers must include a pay range in a job posting. Which employers are covered depends on their size.
How long it has been open
Posted Sep 3, 2026, 54 days ago, and seen on Stripe's careers page today.
At 54 days old, it is under the 75-day median.
Stripe's postings we have seen close took a median of 8 days.
Stripe at a glance
Stripe has 442 open postings that we can see, 71 in software engineering; 4 percent list pay.
The application
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Seniority
Level: senior.
Place and cost of living
On site in New York, NY; prices in NY run 8 percent above the US average.
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Half of them have been open 75 days or less.
From Stripe's posting
This is Stripe's own text, as published on its job board. We last checked it on Oct 27, 2026. Apply on Stripe's site. We remove a posting when the employer closes 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
- Lead the technical design and architecture of major platform initiatives, author design documents and build consensus across engineering teams.
- Define technical roadmaps for complex, multi-quarter projects that span multiple teams.
- Make critical architectural decisions for company documentation infrastructure, balancing scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
- Evaluate and set direction for integrating emerging technologies, including AI/LLM capabilities, into company documentation platforms and authoring tools.
- Establish and evolve engineering standards, best practices and technical guidelines for the team and broader organization.
- Partner with engineering teams across the company to understand documentation needs and design integrated solutions.
- Design, build and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems.
- Contribute high-quality code across the full stack and navigate codebases with different languages and tools.
- Debug and resolve complex production issues and improve system reliability.
- Take ownership of system health and incident response.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field, plus four (4) years of experience in Software Engineering.
Must have four (4) years of experience in each of the following
- Working in a full stack environment with a focus on Ruby, Java, Typescript or Bazel;
- Working as a technical lead for large projects; defining roadmaps for projects that span >6 months and across several teams;
Must have two (2) years of experience in each of the following
- Authoring and reviewing technical design documents and driving architectural decisions for complex systems while collaborating with junior colleagues;
- Building and scaling automated testing and validation frameworks;
- Designing and implementing persistent data models using MongoDB; and
- Implementing emerging technical standards for AI/LLMs.
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.
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. NY59
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