About this Software Engineer – Backend Engineer – Tax Engineering role at Stripe
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe, LLC. 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.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain large-scale low-latency services and data pipelines.
- Work collaboratively on projects that span multiple engineering groups, across multiple functions (engineering, TPM, product, business), and involving different business stakeholders such as tax experts, accountants, and product owners.
- Build watertight controls across data flows to ensure super high accuracy for all transactions (trillions of dollars).
Who you are
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus 4 years of related work experience in software engineering. Must also have experience in each of the following:
3 years in
- experience writing high-quality software using Java, Ruby or Scala;
- experience with Python for backend logic, data processing, or automation scripts;
2 years in
- experience building highly scalable backend infrastructure;
- experience designing and maintaining Microservices and implementing RESTful Web Service;
- experience with Kubernetes and kubectl for managing and scaling cloud-native applications;
- experience in SQL for managing large-scale data sets and optimizing database performance;
1 year in
- experience with frontend technologies, specifically JavaScript or TypeScript, to support end-to-end feature delivery; and
- experience mentoring junior engineers.
Salary: $174,595.00 - $235,200.00/yr
This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.
40 hrs/week
50% Telecommuting Permitted.
Multiple Positions available
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA82
