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Stripe

Software Engineer, New Grad

San Francisco, CA · On-site

New grad candidates should have no more than 18 months of professional experience (excluding internship experience). * Experience and familiarity with programming, either through side projects or ...

Worky

Software Engineer, New Grad

Seattle, WA · On-site

New grad candidates should have no more than 18 months of professional experience (excluding internship experience). * Experience and familiarity with programming, either through side projects or ...

algojobs

Software Engineer, New Grad

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$145K - $155K/yr

... new languages quickly. Our software is constantly evolving, so we need engineers who can do the same. Alongside peers that bring diverse experience - whether you're a former university Teaching ...

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Jackalope Digital LLC

New grad candidates should have no more than 18 months of professional experience (excluding internship experience). * Experience and familiarity with programming, either through side projects or ...

Nooks

$200K/yr

... software looks like. If you want to spend your early career solving hard technical problems ... What You'll Do As a new graduate engineer, you'll work across the stack and collaborate closely ...

Nooks

Software Engineer, New Grad

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$155K - $170K/yr

... software looks like. If you want to spend your early career solving hard technical problems ... What You'll Do As a new graduate engineer, you'll work across the stack and collaborate closely ...

Nooks

Software Engineer, New Grad

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K/yr

... software looks like. If you want to spend your early career solving hard technical problems ... What You'll Do As a new graduate engineer, you'll work across the stack and collaborate closely ...

Neura Market

$124K - $162K/yr

As a New Grad Software Engineer, you will own meaningful, customer-facing work from day one -- shipping products, talking directly to the customers who use them, and iterating fast. Example Projects

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Strada

Software Engineer (New Grad)

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$110K - $140K/yr

The Role We're looking for a Software Engineer to join as one of our earliest engineering hires. You'll work across the stack to build the core systems that power our AI agents - from real‑time ...

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As of Sep 10, 2026, the average yearly pay for contract new grad software engineer in the United States is $147,524.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $120,000.00 and $173,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Contract New Grad Software Engineer vs Contract Software Engineer?

AspectContract New Grad Software EngineerContract Software Engineer
CredentialsRecent CS degree or equivalent, limited professional experienceSimilar, may require more experience or specific skills
Work EnvironmentEntry-level projects, mentorship opportunities, learning-focusedMore independent roles, complex projects, specialized tasks
Employer & Industry UsageUsed by tech companies hiring entry-level contractorsUsed across various industries for contracted software roles

The main difference is that Contract New Grad Software Engineers are typically recent graduates with limited experience, focusing on learning and entry-level tasks. Contract Software Engineers may have more experience and handle more complex projects. Both roles are common in tech industries, but the New Grad position emphasizes training and development.

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Infographic showing various Contract New Grad Software Engineer job openings in the United States as of September 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% Internship, 1% As Needed, 86% Full Time, 9% Part Time, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 85% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 12% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $147,524 per year, or $70.9 per hour.

Software Engineer, New Grad

San Francisco, CA • On-site

Stripe
Software Development • 1 - 5K employees
Learn more about Stripeexternal

Full-time

Posted 9 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Collaborate on multi-person coding projects and contribute to the development of software solutions.

  • Learn and understand unfamiliar systems through independent research and mentorship.

  • Leverage AI tools to accelerate development and review outputs with critical thinking and professional judgment.

Job description

Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a technology company focused on improving the conditions for economic growth and prosperity. We build programmable financial infrastructure, rethinking from first principles how financial services should work, to make it easier and cheaper for any business to start and scale. More than 10 million businesses build on Stripe, spanning the economic frontier-from solo founders to established enterprises-united by a practical focus on growth. The most ambitious companies in the world use Stripe as core infrastructure to grow faster. They process trillions of dollars a year on Stripe, equivalent to around 1.6% of global GDP. While economic growth makes everyone better off, open markets also enable greater variety. When any business can easily serve a global customer base, the quality and diversity of products in the world increase, and craft and creativity are unleashed into the smallest niches. Our own growth is wholly contingent on the success of the businesses building on Stripe. We therefore invest back into our technology at an unusual rate. We make upgrades to our products every single day to deliver compounding gains to our customers. We maintain some of the most reliable APIs on the internet. We build entirely new pieces of financial infrastructure to enable new ideas. And our significant advances in risk and fraud infrastructure over many years are making the internet economy safer and more accessible.
Though people at Stripe don't tend to take themselves seriously, Stripe is a fairly serious place: our customers are depending on us for their livelihoods. We admire ambition, intensity, curiosity, humility, and rigor. The most effective people become knowledgeable about many domains besides their own. Any company is an applied exercise in understanding some aspect of society or the market. In working with so many (especially the new and innovative ones), we think that Stripe is one of the very best places to learn about how the world works.
Your role
Stripe is large enough that individual products and projects can be rapidly deployed to a meaningful fraction of the world's businesses, but small enough that individual agency still has outsized impact. Small teams can impact how millions of businesses grow. Right now the global economy is replatforming around AI, creating new opportunities for growth. We're at the center of this, and we think the best work is still in front of us.
To meet this moment, we're looking for people who move with urgency, like hard problems, and want their work to matter at a time of great change. If that's you, there's no better place to build your career.
Who you are
  • Ambitious builder: You're energized by building solutions without clear precedent and solving problems with far-reaching consequences. Successful Stripes are deeply curious, and prefer the joy of discovery to the comfort of certainty.
  • Rigorous thinker: You appreciate that things worth doing are rarely simple. You enjoy working on problems that have never been tackled before.
  • Adaptable problem solver: You adapt quickly and treat obstacles as opportunities. At Stripe we embrace kindness while encouraging Stripes to take measured risks and act boldly, even in the absence of consensus.
Minimum requirements
  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or a directly related field, obtained by summer 2027, or equivalent work experience; New grad candidates should have no more than 18 months of professional experience (excluding internship experience).
  • Experience and familiarity with programming, either through side projects or classwork. We work mostly in Java, Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, and Go. We believe new programming languages can be learned if the fundamentals and general knowledge are present.
  • Experience from either previous internships or working collaboratively on multi-person coding projects (in a university or professional setting).
  • Ability to learn unfamiliar systems and form an understanding of those systems, through independent research and working with a mentor or subject matter experts.
  • Clear written communication skills, with the ability to explain your work to stakeholders, team members, and other Stripes.
  • Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate development while applying rigorous critical thinking and professional judgement to review, refine, and validate all outputs.
Preferred qualifications
  • One or more areas of specialized knowledge (frontend, backend, infrastructure or other technologies) balanced with general skills and knowledge.
  • Experience in code review practices, and an understanding of how to safely update production systems.
  • Familiarity with navigating and managing work in large code bases.
  • Experience leading small projects independently, and contributing to larger projects alongside peers.
  • Ability to operate with high agency in navigating complex technical obstacles independently, knowing precisely when to unblock oneself and when to ask for help.

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