Stripe is hiring a

Software Engineer, Regulatory and Compliance Engineering

Seattle, United States

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe 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.

About the team

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 and 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.

What you’ll do

You will have direct business impact in some of Stripe’s most mission critical business domains, focusing on Tax and Invoicing. You will work closely with many internal stakeholders, such as Tax, Accounting, Regulatory Reporting, Treasury, and Business Operations. 

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Who you are

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.

Minimum requirements

  • Have 2+ 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

Preferred qualifications

  • Have experience in Java, Scala (Spark), or Ruby
  • Have experience in solving business problems. We focus on Tax and Invoicing working closely with accountants and tax experts
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