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Backend Engineer, Tax Engineering

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About Stripe

Stripe 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.

About the team

Regulatory and Compliance Engineering is tasked with the critical mission of maintaining Stripe’s financial & regulatory compliance. Our engineers operate Stripe’s ledger, which is the authoritative source of record for all money movement at Stripe. We calculate taxes on every Stripe fee and submit the tax and regulatory reports that enable us to operate throughout the world. We own large-scale low-latency services, massive data pipelines and platforms that enable every product at Stripe.

What you’ll do

You will have direct business impact in some of Stripe’s most mission critical business domains, focusing on Tax and Invoicing. You will work closely with many internal stakeholders, such as Tax, Accounting, Regulatory Reporting, Treasury, and Business Operations.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain large-scale low-latency services and data pipelines for customers that produce or consume financial data at Stripe.
Build watertight controls across data flows to ensure super high accuracy for all transactions (trillions of dollars).
Ensure accurate, reliable, and timely reporting delivered to a single source-of-truth data warehouse
Work collaboratively on projects that span multiple engineering groups, across multiple functions (engineering, TPM, product, business), and involving different business stakeholders such as internal regulatory & tax experts, financial crimes investigators, accountants, and more.

Who you are

We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re passionate about solving business problems and making direct impact on customers, you are comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems.

Minimum requirements

Have 5+ years of industry Software Engineering experience
Enjoy and have experience building scalable backend infrastructure
Write high quality code. We work in Scala, Java, and Ruby. Languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework

Preferred qualifications

Have experience in Java, Scala (Spark), or Ruby
Have experience in solving business problems. We focus on Tax and Invoicing working closely with accountants and tax experts

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What You Should Know About Backend Engineer, Tax Engineering, Stripe

Join Stripe as a Backend Engineer in the Tax Engineering team based in Seattle, where you’ll have a direct impact on critical business domains such as Tax and Invoicing. At Stripe, we’re all about building a financial infrastructure platform that businesses of all sizes can rely on to accept payments and grow. As a Backend Engineer, your work will be crucial as you design, build, and maintain large-scale low-latency services and data pipelines that handle vast amounts of financial data. Your role will require close collaboration with various internal teams including Accounting and Regulatory Reporting. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that data flows are accurate and timely, maintaining high reporting standards, and working on impactful projects that involve diverse stakeholders. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a strong background in building backend infrastructure and a passion for solving complex business problems. We value high-quality code and are more interested in your engineering skills than in a particular language; even though you may work with Scala, Java, or Ruby, we know that great engineers can adapt quickly. If you’re looking to make a meaningful contribution and be a part of a dedicated team that operates at the forefront of financial compliance, we’d love to have you at Stripe where we’re dedicated to increasing the GDP of the internet together.

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What are the responsibilities of a Backend Engineer on the Tax Engineering team at Stripe?

As a Backend Engineer on the Tax Engineering team at Stripe, you will design, build, and maintain large-scale low-latency services that are crucial for tax calculations and invoicing. Your job involves ensuring data accuracy for transactions, collaborating with various internal teams, and delivering timely and reliable reporting.