Software Engineer, Stripe Tax

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 constantl...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.
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
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