Backend Engineer (Billing/Tax)

Requirements

• 2-12+ years of experience in backend software development
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• Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++, etc.)
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• Hands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems
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• Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
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• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
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• (Desirable) Familiarity with event-driven architectures
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• (Desirable) Experience with subscription management, usage-based billing, or financial reporting systems
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• (Desirable) Interest in financial infrastructure and how businesses manage their revenue operations
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• (Desirable) Direct leadership and mentorship experience
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• At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description

What the job involves

• As an engineer on the team, you’ll be responsible for shaping and building a suite of products that let our users model and operate their business more efficiently
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• You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day
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• In this cross functional role, you will collaborate with experts in infrastructure, security, design, and operations to build mission critical internal and external features that power Stripe users around the world
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• Design the next generation of Stripe products, to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers for years to come
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• Deliver value through a strong collaborative and users-first approach with stakeholders and customers
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• Mentor engineers to help them grow
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• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack