Software Engineer – Backend Engineer – Tax Engineering
Seattle, WA · HybridFull-time$175–235K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Stripe is hiring a backend engineer for Tax Engineering to design and maintain large-scale, low-latency services and data pipelines. The role collaborates across engineering, product, business, and tax stakeholders, and builds controls to ensure transaction accuracy. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, four years of related software engineering experience, and experience with the listed backend, data, cloud, and frontend technologies.
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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
How this job compares
Set against the 3,016 open Backend Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$175–235K/yr
- Washington median$144–202K/yr113 salary ranges
- US median$155–223K/yr2,434 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $205K, is 17% above the Washington median midpoint ($175K) — in the top quarter of Backend Engineer salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 134 open Backend Engineer jobs in Washington and 3,016 across the US. 15% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Amazon33 open
- IBM6 open
- Microsoft Corporation6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Backend Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,488 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 657 of the 3,016 open Backend Engineer jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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