# Senior Software Engineer, Docs Product at Stripe

> United States · Senior · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Astripe%3A8177860 (read 2026-11-07).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Stripe](https://alderhq.app/companies/stripe)
- Location text: New York, NY; US-PERM
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: New York, NY; US-PERM")
- Posted: 2026-09-03 (65 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-03 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?gh_jid=8177860
- Skills listed (inferred): TypeScript, Java, Ruby/Rails, MongoDB, LLMs

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $190k–$286k per year (from the description)
- Market band for similar posted roles (New York, n 269): p25 $170k, median $195k, p75 $223k
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 138, median offered wage $157k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))
- Recognised sponsor (NL): registered as "Stripe Netherlands B.V." (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://ind.nl/en/public-register-recognised-sponsors/public-register-regular-labour-and-highly-skilled-migrants))
- Licensed UK sponsor: registered as "Stripe Payments UK Ltd" (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers))

## Description (the employer's text)

### 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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