# Software Engineer, Balance Abstraction

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $190k – $286k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Ruby, Java, TypeScript, SQL, gRPC, Rest, GraphQL, SQS, Kafka
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> Designs, builds, and maintains APIs, services, and large-scale systems for high-volume money movement at Stripe. Requires 3+ years experience with Ruby, Java, TypeScript, SQL, gRPC/REST/GraphQL, and event processing like SQS/Kafka; mentors engineers and reviews launches.

## Job Description

## 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.

## Minimum Requirements
- 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.
- 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; and
  - Building systems integrated with event processing technologies including SQS or Kafka.

## Compensation
**Salary:** $190,400 - $285,600/yr.
**Additional benefits:** equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

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