Staff Software Engineer - Stripe Tax

at Stripe

📍 Dublin, Ireland

EUR 132,000-198,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

Stripe Tax is a SaaS product that helps businesses understand their tax obligations, calculate the correct tax, and automate reporting and filing across countries, states, and jurisdictions. The team builds systems and experiences for millions of businesses, with a focus on correctness, extensibility, security, auditability, and operational rigor.

Responsibilities

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.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

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.

Preferred Qualifications

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.