Demo Engineer, Stripe
$187.5-281.3k
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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
$187.5-281.3k
OTE
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years in software engineering (or equivalent)
- Experience in demo engineering, solutions architecture, sales engineering, or developer relations is a plus
- Payments/fintech, AV/show production familiarity, and hardware/POS experience are nice to have
Desirable
- An engineer–storyteller. You can turn complex capabilities into crisp, memorable moments
- Full‑stack capable. Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node/React) and/or Python; comfortable with APIs, webhooks, OAuth, and data stores (e.g., Postgres/Redis); familiar with common deployment infrastructure, such as GCP and AWS
- A builder. You have experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications, and can quickly build high quality demos that meet our standards of craft
- Reliability‑obsessed. You design for live demos with fallbacks and risk mitigation in mind
- Structured and strategic. You create storyboards, technical specs, and checklists; you manage version control and environments with discipline; you bring order to fast, high‑stakes work
- Calm under pressure. You’ve supported live demos or launches and keep your cool when something unexpected happens; you think in contingencies
- Collaborative. You work seamlessly with Product, Eng, PMM, Design, Comms, and show production; strong stakeholder management and clear communication
- Organized. You can juggle multiple demos, rehearsals, and timelines across global events; strong project management and documentation habits
What the job involves
- Our Product Marketing team’s mission is to generate customer insights that inform Stripe’s product strategy, and lead go-to-market for our suite of products
- Product Marketing is a highly cross-functional role at Stripe, partnering closely with Product and Engineering, Sales, Partnerships, Demand Generation and Campaigns to name a few
- Different from many other Product Marketing teams, our team works across the entire product lifecycle, from helping shape the product, to driving launch and commercialization, to growing product adoption post-launch
- We’re looking for a Demo Engineer to build the on‑stage product demos that anchor our product announcement keynotes at Sessions, our annual user conference, and our global Stripe Tour event series
- This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, comms, and marketing
- Partnering closely with product teams across the organization, you’ll own the keynote demos for our most exciting product launches, end to end—from concept and architecture to polish and rehearsals—so they’re technically flawless and narratively unforgettable
- Demo ownership and storytelling
- Own the creation of all keynote demos (code and dashboard) across Stripe’s portfolio, from concept to live delivery, ensuring each demo maps to the keynote narrative and business goals
- Partner with Product and Engineering to scope each demo: define technical requirements, dependencies, and success criteria; storyboard flows that showcase the key details of each product
- Work closely with PMM, Comms, and Product to align each demo to key story beats in the keynote script
- Technical architecture and engineering
- Architect and build robust demo apps and environments (frontend, backend, services, data pipelines)
- Sweat the details: configure environments, provision accounts, set realistic sample data, and wire integrations/webhooks
- Build internal tooling and frameworks to accelerate and safeguard make demo production
- Collaboration and production support
- Collaborate with Design and Marketing to craft clear, legible on‑screen moments and create supporting assets (screens, snippets, animations, backup videos)
- Orchestrate demo rehearsals and run‑of‑show, and train our on-stage demoers
- Travel to be onsite for flagship events (SF and NY) and key Tour events; support live ops during show days, including non‑standard hours
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."
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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