Solutions Architect, Startups

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

Stripes Startups Solutions Architecture (SA) team works with founders CTOs PMs and engineers at early-stage and scaling startups to scope and design Stripe solutions. A Solutions Architects role is to build trusted relationships with technical decision makers provide architecture and bestpractice guidance and hand off to implementation teams for delivery. We create repeatable playbooks and 1:many programs to maximize coverage and velocity. The team also works with and influences startup partnersVCs incubators and acceleratorsto evangelize Stripes solutions and accelerate adoption.

What youll do

As a member of the Startups Solutions Architect team you will build highly consultative trusted relationships with founders and technical decision makers to provide pragmatic business and technical guidance. You will design integration patterns for critical revenue infrastructurespanning payments subscriptions platforms/marketplaces and payout flowsso startups can unlock monetization opportunities and grow with Stripe from MVP through scale.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with founders CTOs product managers and engineers; serve as a technical advisor and thought partner.
• Deeply understand each startups business and stage; map Stripe solutions to near-term milestones and long-term vision.
• Secure the technical win by delivering focused demos designing integration patterns and aligning technical narratives to the startups goals.
• Run scalable 1:many programsoffice hours webinars accelerator/VC enablementand publish reusable reference architectures to multiply AE capacity and reduce time-to-first-transaction.
• Partner closely with GTM and cross-functional teams throughout the startup journey to align on deal strategy run integration reviews and coordinate clean handoffs that accelerate activation and adoption.
• Be the voice of the user: capture and synthesize founder feedback usage signals and early-stage friction; translate insights into actionable changes to product and documentation and close the loop with users.
• Engage ecosystem partners (accelerators VCs and integration partners) to evangelize Stripe and source or advance opportunities.
• Approximately 25% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way with users and collaborate internally.

Who you are

An ideal candidate should have experience working for medium to large software companies (preferably in fintech) focused on identifying business priorities technology strategy and solution design. Youve acted as a trusted advisor to technical leadersleading discovery solutioning and roadmappingand guiding execution strategies in fastmoving environments.

You are an external presales architect who can present and whiteboard Stripe solutions with founders and CTOs influence technical decisions and translate business goals into scalable architectures. You bring experience with modern web/API and cloud architectures and with designing and optimizing financial workflows.

Minimum requirements

• 4 years of total relevant experience (e.g. software development enterprise sales business development etc.).
• 2 years in a technical customer-facing role (e.g. solutions architect sales engineer customer success professional services support) at a fintech or high-growth software company.
• Proficient in reading/writing code in two or more of Stripes primary languages (Ruby Python JavaScript Java Go) with strong familiarity with REST APIs webhooks and authentication.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills; comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Curiosity-driven and able to rapidly learn Stripe products APIs and best practicesand stay current as they evolve.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to understand how diverse technologies interact (ERP CRM billing tax data pipelines mobile/web clients legacy systems).
• Excellent organization and time management; able to prioritize across multiple accounts in fast-moving environments.
• Team-oriented collaborator who works seamlessly within pod models and across GTM Product and Marketing.
• Track record of solving open-ended business problems with a combination of technology analytical rigor and creative thinking.
• Ability to travel per business needs.