Frontend Engineer, Stripe Tax
Frontend Engineer, Stripe Tax
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Job Description
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
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.
Its no surprise then that solving for tax compliance is a top user ask. We launched Stripe Tax as a new SaaS product in 2021 to help solve this pain point and make tax compliance as effortless as possible. The Stripe Tax Growth team is entirely Europe-based and focuses on creating a truly excellent discovery onboarding and adoption process for target users of Stripe Tax. Its still early days and were looking for strong software engineers to help build our product and business.
About Stripe Barcelona
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team as we build up our presence in Barcelona. Please be aware that this role currently requires you to come to the office once a the near future the work model will shift to a hybrid arrangement with a 50% remote and 50% in-office presence in Barcelona Spain.
What youll do
As an engineer on the Stripe Tax team you will have the opportunity to work on one of Stripes newest products. Were still in our early days which means ample opportunity for impact and growth.
As a frontend engineer on the team you will build and expand consumer-focused UIs and full-stack products working with other engineers to build delightful features as well as working with our sales and operations teams to understand and solve our users pain points.
Despite being a frontend-focused engineer when needed you do not shy away from jumping at the opportunity to work directly on the code that powers the frontend APIs to ensure reliable and efficient user interface delivery.
Responsibilities
- Build experiences for businesses that range from high growth startups to leading global companies providing them with the tools so they can run their business and not worry about tax
- Put yourself in the shoes of our users and be a steward of crafting great experiences
- Takes pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
- Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product design infrastructure marketing and operations
- Work and improve the Stripe Dashboard for merchants
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Who you are
Were 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
- 4 years of industry front-end development experience building running and debugging web applications using modern JS frameworks (e.g. React Vue Angular)
- Advanced knowledge of modern HTML and CSS
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug frontend issues
- Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to collaborate with designers product managers and product engineers
- Appreciation for the importance of good documentation -- internal and external
Preferred qualifications
- Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG)
- A passion for performance and optimizing load times for improved user experience
Employment Type
Full Time
