WHO WE ARE
ABOUT STRIPE
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of
companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious
startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new
business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and
we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented
opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the
most important work of your career.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The RFA Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team is a pivotal new unit dedicated
to accelerating Stripe's strategic growth and market leadership in enterprise
Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA). This is no ordinary engineering role;
it's a unique leadership opportunity to be at the forefront of how Stripe builds
and iterates on its products. We're directly tackling the most complex
challenges faced by Stripe's largest and most strategic enterprise users,
bridging the gap between their intricate financial operations and our core
product capabilities.
Unlike traditional professional services, our mission is to identify and rapidly
close critical Product-Market Fit (PMF) gaps in RFA. We often co-develop bespoke
solutions and extensibility frameworks that will ultimately benefit a broader
range of users across our entire product suite. You'll get to embed directly
with key enterprise users, especially those in the high-growth AI segment, to
deeply understand their unique challenges. Your work will involve rapid
prototyping, building key product enhancements, and developing a scalable
solutions framework that combines out-of-the-box functionality with robust
customization capabilities. If you're passionate about solving complex,
real-world problems for high-profile clients and actively shaping the future of
financial automation at Stripe, this team offers an unparalleled opportunity to
make a significant and lasting impact.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
As a Staff Engineer on the RFA Forward Deployed Engineering team, you will:
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
WHO YOU ARE
We’re looking for a seasoned and experienced engineer who thrives in a dynamic,
user-focused environment and is excited by the challenge of building bespoke
solutions that pave the way for broader product capabilities. This is a chance
to wear many hats and have a direct, tangible impact on Stripe's most strategic
initiatives, stepping into a key leadership position within a foundational new
team.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- 10+ 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
- Ability to travel 20% of the time
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
