Solutions Architect

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Engage with Chief Technical Officers, engineering leads, and other technical leads at key users to share technology roadmaps, demonstrate the latest innovations, and define a solution strategy to solve problems.
• - Lead technical discussions and solution deep dives with users on the value Stripe can provide to them.
• - Serve as an advocate for your customers internally, to ensure their needs are represented with product engineering and to influence product direction and priorities.
• - Create technical content (reference architectures, demos, etc.) to share with users as well as speak as a thought leader at industry conferences.

Required Skills

• - 7+ years work experience or equivalent in any mixture of roles including pre-sales, technical architecture (application, technical, systems, integration), technical consulting, application delivery or technical engineering role, with at least 4 years in a customer facing pre-sales 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.
• - Ability to write code.
• - Experience with large enterprise customers.
• - Strong verbal and written communication abilities, including presenting to large audiences in both German and English.

Benefits

• - Equity
• - Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• - Retirement plans
• - Health benefits
• - Wellness stipends