Solutions Architect, Stripe
DACH, SaaS Platform
€121.3-182k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€121.3-182k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 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
- A background in payments systems and Ecommerce solutions is a plus but not a requirement
- 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)
- Has at least six years of experience
- Thrives in a cross-functional, collaborative environment
- Excellent communication both in German and English
What the job involves
- Stripe’s SaaS Platform Solutions Architecture team works with our largest and most complex B2B software users i.e. Shopify, Doctolib, FreeNow, etc, 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 Platform Solutions Architect will build highly consultative relationships with the decision makers in the user’s organisations 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
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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