Staff Software Engineer - Stripe Tax
Stripe · Dublin · 8596 Tax Products · listed October 12, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
10+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
6
Length
637 words
In the posting’s own words
Collecting and filing sales & indirect taxes is a classic area for technology disruption. Companies selling across countries, states, and even smaller jurisdictions have to navigate through a myriad of tax rates, product-level tax exemptions, filing requirements, and registration obligations. The rules are constantly changing, and not accurately calculating and filing tax can have legal ramifications.
What it asks for · 6
- 10+ years of industry software engineering experience building and operating large-scale, distributed systems
- Deep software engineering expertise, with a track record of making sound architectural decisions while remaining hands-on in the code
- A track record of leading complex, multi-team technical programs from ambiguous problem definition through successful delivery and adoption
- The ability to set long-term technical direction, identify the highest-leverage investments, and make progress amid uncertainty and competing constraints
- Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to build alignment among senior technical, product, and business stakeholders without relying on authority
- A commitment to growing other engineers through mentorship, technical feedback, and a culture of rigorous, inclusive, and data-informed decision making
Also a plus
- Experience in tax, financial technology, payments, accounting, financial reporting, or another domain where correctness and regulatory complexity are central
- Experience working directly with large enterprise customers and translating their complex requirements into durable platform capabilities
- Experience designing robust integrations with external systems and APIs, or leading platform work that spans backend services, data, and user-facing experiences
What the job covers
- Drive the technical strategy and execution for Stripe Tax’s most important and ambiguous product and platform investments, from early exploration through production adoption
- Work backwards from the needs of complex global businesses and evolving tax regulations to identify high-leverage opportunities and shape the product roadmap
- Partner with engineering, product, design, operations, legal, go-to-market, and infrastructure leaders to align teams and deliver cohesive tax experiences across Stripe
- Design and evolve scalable, resilient systems and data models that meet the exceptionally high standards for correctness, auditability, security, and availability required in tax
- Drive interoperability across Stripe products and external tax ecosystems, scrutinizing service boundaries, interfaces, and data contracts to keep the platform extensible
- Raise the engineering bar through hands-on technical leadership, clear decision-making frameworks, operational excellence, and mentorship that accelerates other engineers
Tools and skills named
Go to market
- Go-to-market2×
- SaaS
Product & design
- Roadmap2×
Security & compliance
- Regulatory
- Security
Ways of working
- Mentorship2×
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems
Words the posting leans on
- tax17×
- technical9×
- experience8×
- requirements8×
- product7×
- engineering5×
- complex4×
- filing4×
- platform4×
- systems4×
- build3×
- businesses3×
- correctness3×
- data3×
- decisions3×
- leaders3×
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