Software Engineer, Early Career - Immediate Start
Early-career software engineer in Toronto at a payments company, building production systems in large code bases; this posting is for people who can start full-time before December 1, 2026. Suits recent computer science graduates, or those with up to about 18 months of professional experience.
Toronto
On-site0 to 2 years
Pay not stated
Full-time
Posted 17 Sept 2026What they ask for
How Stripe hires
- 1
Recruiter screen, 30 minutes
Recruiter screen · 30 min · Candidate reported
- 2
Technical screen
Live coding · Candidate reported
Live coding on a practical, multi-part problem.
- 3
Onsite loop
Panel interview · Candidate reported
About five rounds: general coding, a bug squash in an unfamiliar codebase, an integration round against a provided API, system design and a behavioural round.
What comes up
Roadmaps and cheat sheets for this role
Matched to the skills and level this job asks for.
- RoadmapDSA and problem solvingData structures and patterns
- RoadmapBackend developmentAPIs, databases, auth, deploys
- RoadmapUniversity to job-readySemester by semester plan for CS students
- Cheat sheetDSA and problem solvingData structures and patterns.
- Cheat sheetBackend developmentAPIs, databases, auth, deploys.
- Cheat sheetUniversity to job-readySemester by semester plan for CS students.
Worth reading before you apply
From the Sefism resource library, matched to this role and Stripe's rounds.
A foundations course that builds eleven core data structures from the ground up (arrays, matrices, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees and BSTs, hash tables, hash sets, heaps, graphs and tries), then covers sorting, searching, greedy and divide and conquer. Every chapter has practice problems, flashcards and an assessment. It suits students and career switchers whose foundations came from tutorials and who find pattern courses move too fast.
- Job search
- DSA
- CS fundamentals
A browsable practice library of coding problems that can be filtered by pattern, data structure, difficulty and company, so you can drill exactly the weakness you found this week. Patterns include two pointers, sliding window, hash maps, stacks, backtracking and greedy algorithms, with company filters for Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and LinkedIn. Free to browse, with an in-browser editor and solutions.
- Job search
- DSA
A free newsletter of short, focused posts on system design and problem solving, from the team behind the Grokking courses. Recent posts cover company interview processes (such as OpenAI and Anthropic roles), the most asked mobile system design questions and preparation plans, each linking to a fuller article on the blog. It suits engineers who want a steady, low-effort way to keep system design and interview topics fresh between deeper study sessions.
- System design
- DSA
Abdul Bari's channel is a classic university-style course on the design and analysis of algorithms, taught on a whiteboard in clear English. It covers complexity, divide and conquer, greedy methods, dynamic programming, backtracking, branch and bound, NP-hard problems and string matching, plus Java programming. It suits computer science students studying algorithms as a subject.
- DSA
- CS fundamentals
- Programming
The second volume of Grokking the System Design Interview, aimed at senior and staff (L5/L6) design rounds. It works through harder case studies such as a payment system, flash sale, notification service, unique ID generator, Gmail, Reddit, Google Calendar and a code judging system, then goes beneath them with patterns like quorum, write-ahead logs and vector clocks and deep dives into Dynamo, Cassandra, Kafka, Chubby, HDFS, GFS and BigTable.
- System design
- Backend
- Job search
A quick-revision companion to the DSA roadmap in nine chapters: complexity, arrays and hashing, linked lists, stacks and queues, recursion, sorting and searching, trees and heaps, graphs, coding patterns, dynamic programming and timed practice habits. Costs are stated for every structure and algorithm, in Python, Java, C++ or JavaScript editions. Use it after each roadmap stage and before a contest or coding round.
- Programming
- DSA
- Web
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Last checked 8 days ago (6 Oct 2026)
About the company
Builds payment processing and financial infrastructure APIs that businesses use to accept payments and manage money online.
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