Join Stripe's Revenue & Financial Automation team as an Engineer on the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, where you will work alongside AI agents to serve complex enterprise users at scale. Your responsibilities include making judgment calls on ambiguous problems, building relationships with user engineering teams, and designing solutions that address product-market fit gaps across multiple products like Payments, Invoicing, and Global LPMs. You'll engage directly with Stripe's strategic enterprise users, translating their requirements into technical solutions and informing the product roadmap based on real-world insights. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of backend systems experience, strong problem-solving skills, and a background in financial automation or billing products. Familiarity with AI-augmented engineering is preferred as you will help define how an engineering function operates alongside AI tools.
Skills
Python
Java
Go
Ruby
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
API design
Data modeling
GraphQL
Terraform
Git
Linux
RESTful APIs
JSON
What you'll do
Work alongside AI agents to serve users at scale by making judgment calls and building relationships.
Engage directly with Stripe's strategic enterprise users to understand their requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
Design and deploy cross-product boundary solutions addressing gaps in multi-product integrations and user needs.
Build reusable customization frameworks for tailored billing logic, financial workflows, and integrations that scale beyond individual engagements.
Provide architectural guidance by reviewing user architectures and advising on best practices to optimize integration and performance.
Resolve critical technical challenges across the stack, identifying systemic improvements to prevent recurrence and enhance platform stability.
Inform Stripe's product roadmap by surfacing integration gaps, migration friction, and multi-product failures based on direct user experience.
What we're looking for
5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on backend systems.
Proven ability to design and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available systems.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, and data modeling principles.
Excellent problem-solving skills in complex technical and business domains.
Clear communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience working collaboratively with product managers and other engineers.
Willingness to engage directly with users to understand requirements and co-develop solutions.
Market check
Salary context
This
$172,000–$172,000
range sits above
43%
of similar postings on FindRole.
Peer median band
$142,150–$216,000
Median floor and ceiling across peers.
Typical midpoint (25–75%)
$141,500–$215,000
Middle half of comparable postings.
Based on 240 comparable postings.*
* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.
Employer
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology
Stripe currently has
52 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$178,600–$261,000
across 52 roles with salary data.