Software Engineer, Stripe Tax

Who we are

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 

Collecting and filing sales & indirect taxes is a classic area for technology disruption. Companies selling across countries, states, and even smaller jurisdictions have to navigate through a myriad of tax rates, product-level tax exemptions, filing requirements, and registration obligations. The rules are constantly changing, and not accurately calculating and filing tax can have legal ramifications.

It’s no surprise then that solving for tax compliance is a top user ask. We launched Stripe Tax as a new SaaS product in 2021 to help solve this pain point and make tax compliance as effortless as possible. The Stripe Tax Capabilities team engineers sophisticated solutions for our largest merchants, who face unique and highly complex tax requirements that differ significantly from smaller businesses, by automating their most intricate global compliance use cases.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for software engineers who are interested in building software services and platforms that impact millions of Stripe users. You will be working alongside a diverse set of peers spanning design, product and engineering to identify, build and maintain complex tax capabilities that empower and retain our largest customers on Stripe Tax.

Responsibilities

• Operate with limited oversight and own end-to-end the delivery of projects, including independently scoping, designing, implementing, and productionizing features
• Work backwards from complex customer needs to identify opportunities and drive meaningful business impact
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, marketing and operations
• Debug production issues across services and improve the team's overall operational health
• Develop and execute against both short- and long-term goals
• Establish and uphold best practices in engineering, security, and technical design

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 2+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
• Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)
• Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
• Have the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external cross discipline stakeholders
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Preferred qualifications

• Track record of working directly with customers and ability to influence product decisions
• Experience in integrating robustly with external systems and/or APIs 
• Experience in both frontend and backend development