Staff Engineer, RFA Forward Deployed Engineering

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November 4

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Stripe

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Fintech • eCommerce • B2B

Stripe is a global payments processing platform that enables businesses to accept online and in-person payments. It offers a comprehensive suite of financial services, including payment processing, billing, and revenue management tools, aimed at businesses of all sizes, from startups to enterprises. By providing a developer-friendly API, Stripe allows businesses to streamline their payment operations and embed financial services directly into their applications, facilitating both B2B and B2C transactions.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

💳 Fintech

🛍️ eCommerce

🤝 B2B

💰 Venture Round on 2021-05

📋 Description

• Lead with a product-first mindset: You'll be a leader in understanding our users' ambiguous, niche needs, and translating them into elegant, scalable technical solutions that address specific business problems • Drive product evolution through co-development: Design, build, and deploy critical enhancements and custom solutions to address product-market fit gaps, ensuring RFA meets the nuanced needs of large enterprises. You will also embed directly within RFA engineering teams to co-develop the highest leverage capabilities for our users, ensuring your solutions seamlessly integrate and enhance Stripe’s core offerings • Pioneer extensibility: Contribute to the development of a robust and intuitive customization framework for RFA, enabling tailored billing logic, financial workflows, and integrations. You'll be the primary contributor of solutions to the "RFA Suite of Solutions," building the toolkit that empowers enterprise customers to customize Stripe for their unique needs • Provide expert architectural guidance: Review user architectures, offer expert guidance on best practices, and optimize system integration and performance for complex enterprise environments. Your insights will be crucial to successful deployments and will help build a library of architectural guidance for the field team • Strategically resolve critical challenges: Act as the primary technical contact for high-impact user issues, leading the charge to diagnose and resolve complex product/engineering challenges across the stack. You'll not only fix problems but also identify systemic improvements, preventing future occurrences and influencing core product stability and long-term reliability • Directly influence product and engineering strategy: Provide direct, user-centric feedback to core product teams, advocating for features and capabilities essential for enterprise adoption and actively shaping the future of Stripe’s RFA offerings. You'll lead design reviews and provide strategic feedback to other engineers on the team, mentoring them and helping to build a world-class engineering culture • Help build and grow the team: Play a key role in building the team and developing the FDE model, helping to define our processes, best practices, and hiring strategy as we scale. You will be a foundational member of the team, helping us grow from a small, focused unit to a scalable, company-wide function • Elevate engineering standards: Elevate engineering standards, tooling, and processes within the team, contributing to a high-quality, maintainable codebase and efficient development lifecycle. You'll help us build for scale and sustainability

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on backend systems • Proven expertise in designing, building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure systems • Strong command of distributed systems, API design, and data modeling • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to quickly grasp complex technical and business domains • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including external users. You'll be a bridge builder • A track record of thriving in collaborative environments, working closely with product managers, TPMs, and other engineers • Willingness to engage directly with users to understand requirements and co-develop solutions—this is a core part of the role • Ability to travel 20% of the time

🏖️ Benefits

• health insurance • retirement plans • paid time off • flexible work arrangements • professional development