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Software Engineer – Backend Engineer – Tax Engineering

Stripe · Seattle, WA

Spotted 21h ago

Job details

Pay
$174,595 – $235,200 a year
Education
Bachelor's degree
Posted
Nov 12, 2026
Last confirmed open
Nov 13, 2026
Job function
Software/Internet/AI › Backend Engineering › Backend Engineer
Job description

About this role

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.

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

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