Software Engineer, Connect Tax Reporting

Stripe
Bucharest, Romania
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for mid-level engineers who build scalable, reliable systems and operate in tax compliance domains.

Best fit for

  • Mid-level engineers with experience in backend systems and tax reporting workflows
    — “Experience building, testing, and maintaining production software in one or more general-purpose programming languages
  • Candidates who can navigate complex regulatory environments and automate compliance processes
    — “The Connect Tax Reporting team builds products to help businesses collect and verify tax information, prepare and deliver tax forms, and manage reporting obligations across jurisdictions
  • Individuals who can translate business needs into robust technical implementations
    — “Turn user and business needs into clear technical approaches and deliver projects from concept to launch

Things to consider

  • Requires handling high-volume seasonal workflows and fixed filing deadlines
    — “systems handle high-volume seasonal workflows, support complex country-specific rules, and remain dependable under fixed filing deadlines
  • Focus on correctness and data integrity implies high precision expectations
    — “correctness, reliability, and user trust matter deeply

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with backend services, APIs, and data pipelines in your resume and interview responses
    — “Experience building backend services, APIs, batch workflows, data pipelines, or user-facing product experiences
  • Emphasize your ability to debug and operate production systems under pressure
    — “Experience debugging and operating production systems
  • Demonstrate familiarity with AI-assisted development tools in your technical approach examples
    — “AI-assisted development will be part of your day-to-day work as you design, build, test, and operate software
  • Showcase your ability to collaborate across teams and deliver solutions aligned with user needs
    — “Partner with product, tax operations, support, and engineering teams to deliver solutions that meet user needs
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

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What success looks like

  • simplified tax reporting
  • reliable production systems
  • improved tax reporting workflows
Typical background
software engineeringtax reportingAPI development

Skills & requirements

Required

Software EngineeringTax ReportingAPI DevelopmentData PipelinesProduction Systems

Preferred

Ai-assisted Development

Stack & domain

Software EngineeringTax ReportingApisData PipelinesAi-assisted DevelopmentCommunicationTeamworkProblem SolvingLeadershipFinanceTechnology

About the role

Original posting from Stripe

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

Tax compliance is a hard problem. When millions of payments flow through a marketplace or platform, the rules for what gets reported, to whom, in which format, and by when are complex, high-stakes, and vary by country. The Connect Tax Reporting team builds products to help businesses collect and verify tax information, prepare and deliver tax forms, and manage reporting obligations across jurisdictions. This includes 1099 reporting in the US and digital platform reporting across the EU, Australia, Canada, the UK, and other regions.

This is a domain where correctness, reliability, and user trust matter deeply. A late filing, an incorrect form, or a missed reporting threshold can create regulatory risk and erode trust with platforms and their sellers. Our systems handle high-volume seasonal workflows, support complex country-specific rules, and remain dependable under fixed filing deadlines.

What you’ll do

You’ll build products and systems that simplify tax reporting for platforms and their users. You’ll take projects from discovery and technical design through implementation, launch, and operation.

Your work may include improving tax information collection, building APIs and data pipelines, automating reporting processes, and strengthening the reliability of production systems. You’ll collaborate with product managers, tax operations, support, and engineers across Stripe. AI-assisted development will be part of your day-to-day work as you design, build, test, and operate software.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate features across tax reporting user experiences, APIs, services, and data workflows

Turn user and business needs into clear technical approaches and deliver projects from concept to launch

 Build scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable software supported by appropriate tests

 Improve tax reporting workflows through automation and operational tooling

 Review code and collaborate with engineers to improve implementation quality and share technical context

 Monitor production systems, respond to incidents, and improve reliability, observability, and runbooks

 Partner with product, tax operations, support, and engineering teams to deliver solutions that meet user needs

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

Experience building, testing, and maintaining production software in one or more general-purpose programming languages (Ruby, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, etc)

Experience delivering software projects from problem definition through launch

 Ability to make technical decisions and communicate tradeoffs through code, design documents, and technical discussions

 Experience debugging and operating production systems

Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools

Preferred qualifications 

Experience building backend services, APIs, batch workflows, data pipelines, or user-facing product experiences

Experience with distributed systems, asynchronous processing, large-scale data workflows, or search infrastructure

 Experience with financial, compliance, reporting, or other systems where correctness, privacy, and data integrity matter

Interest in learning tax reporting concepts and building products for platforms and their users

Source: Stripe careers

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