Full-Time

Software Engineer

Money Movement

Updated on 8/19/2026

Stripe

Stripe

10,001+ employees

Online payment processing APIs for businesses

No salary listed

London, UK

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Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Interaction Design
REST APIs

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Requirements
  • 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience, excluding internships and co-ops.
  • Strong coding skills in any programming language.
  • Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within the team and contribute to peers' success.
  • Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset.
  • Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems for internal and external users.
Responsibilities
  • Scope, design, build, and maintain application programming interfaces, user experiences, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
  • Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
  • Mentor engineers to help them grow.
  • Meet directly with users to help shape product changes.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large scale while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
  • Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team while maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building user interfaces.
  • Experience with user research or interaction design.
  • Experience designing and building application programming interfaces.

Stripe provides online payment processing through a suite of APIs that let apps accept and process payments securely over the internet for businesses of all sizes. Developers integrate these APIs into websites or apps; Stripe handles payment methods, authorization, settlement, and payouts to sellers. It differentiates itself with a broad set of connected products around payments, including Billing, Connect, Issuing, Radar, Capital, Atlas, Climate, and Identity, all designed to work together via a developer-friendly API platform for use cases such as subscriptions, marketplaces, and creator payouts. Its goal is to make online monetization simple and secure for internet businesses while earning revenue from transaction fees and related services.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$8.7B

Headquarters

South San Francisco, California

Founded

2010

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Stripe said first-half 2026 revenue rose 41%, signaling strong merchant expansion.
  • Stripe agreed August 19, 2026 to acquire OpenRouter, widening AI payments distribution.
  • Tempo mainnet and Payment Records deepen retention by connecting stablecoin flows and dunning automation.

What critics are saying

  • Tempo, Circle Arc, and Tether Plasma fragment stablecoin liquidity and checkout standards by 2027.
  • PayPal and Adyen compress pricing on cards while merchants keep multi-processor setups.
  • OpenRouter integration drags Stripe into AI infrastructure wars, where hyperscalers commoditize routing margins.

What makes Stripe unique

  • Stripe powers payments for 88% of Forbes AI 50, including OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • Stripe now spans cards, stablecoins, model routing, and payments infrastructure across one stack.
  • Payment Records unified off-Stripe billing data, exposing deeper workflow lock-in for multi-processor merchants.

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Benefits

Inclusive coverage - We provide a thoughtful and balanced set of benefits that allow Stripes to be their best selves and do great work. Whether that means offering comprehensive mental, physical, and medical health plans, supporting Stripes’ financial futures, providing fertility benefits and parental leave, or making sure Stripes have access to healthy food at the office, our robust programs put Stripes and their families first.

Growth by way of learning - We are voracious learners and teachers. Our Education team delivers an onboarding and product training curriculum for all new Stripes, and hosts expert-led courses on things like project management fundamentals and macroeconomics. Beyond the formal program, Stripes are constantly sharing knowledge with each other through conversation, documentation, reading groups, and informal talks.

A principled approach to food - The food program holds a special place in Stripe’s history and future. These Stripes come to our kitchen from a breadth of backgrounds and experiences, and focus on one proposition—respect. This is apparent not only in the local ingredients they work with or in the gracious, teamwork-driven buffet lines, but also in their approach to growing a global team through sustainable food practices and minimal waste.

Growth & Insights and Company News

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Business Insider
Aug 19th, 2026
Stripe tells investors AI singularity arrived in January, revenue jumps 41%

Stripe executives told investors in a letter obtained by Axios that they believe the "singularity" — when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence — arrived on 1 January 2026. The payment processor has been operating on that assumption ever since. CEO Patrick Collison, president John Collison, and president of technology and business William Gaybrick cited "a large inflection in long-run trends", including a significant increase in new firm creation. They join other tech leaders like OpenAI's Sam Altman and Tesla's Elon Musk in declaring the singularity's arrival, though several AI experts dispute this view. The company announced it was acquiring OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace startup. Stripe's first-half revenue rose 41% year-over-year.

Yahoo Finance
Aug 19th, 2026
Stripe revenue surges 41% as payments giant acquires OpenRouter for $8B

Stripe told investors that January 1st marked the "beginning of the singularity," a major inflection point in longterm trends, according to a letter obtained by Axios. The payments giant said first-half revenue rose 41% year-over-year and free cashflow increased 43%. Stripe confirmed its acquisition of OpenRouter for more than $8 billion, mostly in stock. The company says 88% of the Forbes AI 50, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are building on its platform. The share of its revenue from AI and crypto companies has more than doubled year over year. Stripe was valued at $159 billion in February during an employee tender offer, up from $91.5 billion a year earlier. The company is also pursuing an acquisition of PayPal with Advent International, reportedly offering $53 billion.

Stripe
Aug 19th, 2026
Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter to help businesses optimise token routing and usage

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway and routing platform used to optimise token usage across more than 400 models from over 80 providers.

TechCrunch
Aug 16th, 2026
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunch

OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

Bloomberg
Aug 16th, 2026
Stripe finalises agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion

Stripe has finalised an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing startup, for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg.