Solutions Architect, Stripe

• Solutions Architects are experienced technologists with a strong background developing integrations, consulting with customers to understand their objectives, and leveraging technology to drive business value
• A capable engineer, with previous background building web or mobile applications and experience of working with customers and/or partners in a customer facing solution development role
• Possess strong technical knowledge in software architecture, have breadth across technology stacks with deep hands on skills, and comfortable talking about technical concepts and explaining how they work, both from a product feature and API architecture perspective
• A great communicator, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Interested in solving open ended business problems with a combination of technology and creative thinking
• Experienced working in the sales lifecycle and driving outcomes in a customer-facing environment
• Is comfortable writing code in a few of Stripe’s primary deployment languages (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, etc.) and enjoys learning new languages and technologies
• Has experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications
• Has a background working in a similar customer-facing role (e.g. solutions architect, sales engineer, or partner engineer)
• 4+ years of experience
• Thrives in a cross-functional, collaborative environment
• Strong communication skills in both French and English
• You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description

Desirable

• Stripe’s Solutions Architecture team works with our largest and most complex users to understand their business and technical requirements and map those to Stripe technology
• We design robust technical solutions and seamlessly embed those into our users’ financial infrastructures to help them facilitate payment transactions, manage money movements and simplify operational processes
• The Solutions Architect will build highly consultative relationships with the decision makers in the user’s organizations to provide business and technical thought leadership, and become a trusted advisor in solving complex business challenges and driving growth for our users
• Drive thought leadership and build executive relationships with key technical stakeholders including CEO, CTO, Head of Payments, etc
• Be a domain expert in Stripe core technology and product suites
• Work to deeply understand the user’s business objectives and co-develop a financial services roadmap and reference architecture
• Expand Stripe’s footprint within existing users to new global markets by introducing new capabilities
• Collaborate with multiple internal stakeholders including Go-To-Market, Product & Engineer, Marketing, Legal, Risk and etc, to drive technical wins for our users
• Act as the voice of the customer to influence Stripe’s product roadmap on insights, trends, and opportunities across our users
• Work closely with professional services and partners to accelerate activations and time to live