Description
Stripe’s Professional Services team works with the company's most strategic users, delivering excellence and enabling them to succeed with Stripe. The new Forward Deployed Engineering team takes the evolution of consulting services behind the keyboard by directly building and delivering software for users.
In this role, you will work closely with Stripe’s Product & Engineering team to help shape features that extend beyond what's possible out of the box with Stripe integrations. You may be building standalone applications deployed in user environments, developing priority features within Stripe's ecosystem, or augmenting existing development staff for users to deliver faster and more resilient connections to Stripe.
While maintenance is part of the work, you'll often be starting new and exciting projects. You'll succeed if you get excited about driving direction and taking ownership of your work.
Responsibilities
- Design and architect robust technical solutions, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and aligned with customer needs
- Design, build, and deploy production applications combining user business logic, Stripe best practices, and user-facing interfaces
- Collaborate directly with internal and external stakeholders, bridging the gap between technical teams and executives
- Drive the direction of the new Forward Deployed Engineering arm at Stripe and contribute to technical projects
- Engage directly with users to deeply understand challenges, requirements, and co-develop solutions
- Contribute tooling, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional, hands-on full-stack development experience with languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Go, or Java
- Experience with backend infrastructure and building systems that scale
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and deploy production applications
- Excellence at rapid prototyping while maintaining quality standards
- Familiarity with containerized applications and object-oriented programming languages
- Superb problem-solving skills and understanding of the product and business side of development
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working as a software consultant
- Strong command of distributed systems, API design, and data modeling
- Familiarity working with AI APIs and leveraging AI code generation tools
- Proven track record of delivering technical solutions in enterprise environments driving measurable outcomes
- Passion for handling ambiguity and picking up new technologies, frameworks, and tools