Stripe · 4 months ago
Staff Engineer, RFA Forward Deployed Engineering
Seattle
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expStripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, and they are seeking a Staff Engineer for their RFA Forward Deployed Engineering team. This role involves leading the development of scalable technical solutions for enterprise users, driving product evolution, and providing architectural guidance to enhance Stripe's offerings.
FinanceFinTechMobile PaymentsSaaS
Responsibilities
Lead with a product-first mindset: You'll be a leader in understanding our users' ambiguous, niche needs, and translating them into elegant, scalable technical solutions that address specific business problems
Drive product evolution through co-development: Design, build, and deploy critical enhancements and custom solutions to address product-market fit gaps, ensuring RFA meets the nuanced needs of large enterprises. You will also embed directly within RFA engineering teams to co-develop the highest leverage capabilities for our users, ensuring your solutions seamlessly integrate and enhance Stripe’s core offerings
Pioneer extensibility: Contribute to the development of a robust and intuitive customization framework for RFA, enabling tailored billing logic, financial workflows, and integrations. You'll be the primary contributor of solutions to the 'RFA Suite of Solutions,' building the toolkit that empowers enterprise customers to customize Stripe for their unique needs
Provide expert architectural guidance: Review user architectures, offer expert guidance on best practices, and optimize system integration and performance for complex enterprise environments. Your insights will be crucial to successful deployments and will help build a library of architectural guidance for the field team
Strategically resolve critical challenges: Act as the primary technical contact for high-impact user issues, leading the charge to diagnose and resolve complex product/engineering challenges across the stack. You'll not only fix problems but also identify systemic improvements, preventing future occurrences and influencing core product stability and long-term reliability
Directly influence product and engineering strategy: Provide direct, user-centric feedback to core product teams, advocating for features and capabilities essential for enterprise adoption and actively shaping the future of Stripe’s RFA offerings. You'll lead design reviews and provide strategic feedback to other engineers on the team, mentoring them and helping to build a world-class engineering culture
Help build and grow the team: Play a key role in building the team and developing the FDE model, helping to define our processes, best practices, and hiring strategy as we scale. You will be a foundational member of the team, helping us grow from a small, focused unit to a scalable, company-wide function
Elevate engineering standards: Elevate engineering standards, tooling, and processes within the team, contributing to a high-quality, maintainable codebase and efficient development lifecycle. You'll help us build for scale and sustainability
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on backend systems
Proven expertise in designing, building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure systems
Strong command of distributed systems, API design, and data modeling
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to quickly grasp complex technical and business domains
Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including external users. You'll be a bridge builder
A track record of thriving in collaborative environments, working closely with product managers, TPMs, and other engineers
Willingness to engage directly with users to understand requirements and co-develop solutions—this is a core part of the role
Preferred
Experience with RFA products such as Stripe Billing, Tax, and Revenue Recognition
Experience with extensibility models, custom solution frameworks, or platform development
Experience working with large enterprise users or in a user-facing engineering role
Prior experience in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where priorities can shift based on user needs, and you thrive on that challenge
Company
Stripe
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.44BKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementThrive CapitalFounders Fund
2025-02-27Secondary Market
2024-04-12Secondary Market· $694.16M
2024-03-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Steffan Tomlinson
CFO
Aitor Guevara
Head Of Engineering
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