# Software Engineer – Backend Engineer – Tax Engineering

**Company:** [Stripe](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/stripe)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Work mode:** Hybrid
**Salary:** USD 175K–235K/yr
**Category:** Engineering
**Department:** Global Operations
**Listed:** 2026-11-12

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## What you'll do

- Design, build, and maintain low-latency services and data pipelines
- Collaborate across engineering groups with tax experts and accountants
- Build watertight controls for trillions of dollars in transactions

## What you need

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 4+ yrs of software engineering experience
- 3 yrs Java, Ruby, or Scala experience
- 2 yrs Kubernetes, kubectl, and SQL experience
- 1 yr JavaScript or TypeScript and mentoring experience

## Job description

### **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_**

### **#LI-DNI**

## Other open roles at Stripe

- [Staff Software Engineer, Code Forge](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/staff-software-engineer-code-forge-8293644) — San Francisco, Seattle, US-Remote
- [Product Manager, Consumer Bank Network](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/product-manager-consumer-bank-network-8384438) — SF, SEA, NYC, Chicago, Toronto
- [Analyst Relations Senior Manager](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/analyst-relations-senior-manager-8376775) — Remote in the US
- [Software Engineer, Full Stack](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/software-engineer-full-stack-8384287) — New York, NY
- [Staff Product Manager, Custom Objects](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/staff-product-manager-custom-objects-8315951) — San Francisco, California

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