Backend Engineer, Stripe

• We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems
• You’re passionate about solving business problems and making direct impact on customers, you are comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems
• 3+ years of industry Software Engineering experience
• Enjoy and have experience building scalable backend infrastructure
• Write high quality code. We work in Scala, Java, and Ruby. Languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
• Are interested in solving business problems for Stripe’s Tax & Regulatory teams

Desirable

• Regulatory And Compliance Engineering is tasked with the critical mission of maintaining Stripe’s financial & regulatory compliance
• Our Engineers operate Stripe’s ledger, which is the authoritative source of record for all money movement at Stripe, we calculate taxes on every Stripe fee, and submit the tax & regulatory reports that enable us to operate throughout the world
• We own large-scale low-latency services, massive data pipelines and platforms that enable every product at Stripe
• You will have direct business impact in some of Stripe’s most mission critical business domains including Accounting, Finance & Strategy, Risk, Regulatory Reporting, Treasury, and Business Operations
• Design, build, and maintain large-scale low-latency services and data pipelines for customers that produce or consume financial data at Stripe
• Build watertight controls across data flows to ensure super high accuracy for all transactions (trillions of dollars)
• Ensure accurate, reliable, and timely reporting delivered to a single source-of-truth data warehouse
• Work collaboratively on projects that span multiple engineering groups, across multiple functions (engineering, TPM, product, business), and involving different business stakeholders such as internal regulatory & tax experts, financial crimes investigators, accountants, and more