Technical Solutions Engineer

Seattle, WA, Remote-US

About the Position

We are looking for a Technical Solutions Engineer to join our Technical Solutions Engineering (TSE) team at Stripe. This role is pivotal in supporting developers globally, building integrations, and improving documentation to ensure a seamless experience with Stripe's infrastructure.

About the Team

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. The TSE team is the glue that supports our developer-users and champions developer experience as being central to the overall experience of our users. When we do our job well, developers all over the world are able to smoothly launch and grow their businesses on Stripe.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with a number of external developers and aid them in building their applications against Stripe’s infrastructure in a number of programming languages (including Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, NodeJS, .NET, ReactJS, React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, and Java for Android).
• Unblock external developers with their thorniest integration challenges through a variety of support channels including email, ticketing software, internal issue trackers, community platforms (like StackOverflow), and real-time chat software (like Slack and Discord).
• Develop and maintain internal and external documentation, examples, integration demos, and code-snippets that demonstrate usage patterns of the Stripe infrastructure.
• Identify points of friction developers encounter and collaborate with engineering teams to make Stripe products better. Participate in a number of extended engineering teams’ regular planning sessions, design reviews, and development meetings.
• Develop and maintain a suite of internal support tooling for TSE and Stripe Support more broadly e.g. a retrieval augmented generation LLM-based Copilot tool or the Invoice Explainer Admin tool.
• Act as a developer advocate and educational resource internal to the organization by regularly assembling training for non-developers internal to the organization and responding in real-time to product integration questions.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of full-stack software development experience, with a proven track record of building web or mobile applications that deliver high-quality user experiences.
• Direct experience explaining technical concepts, and would be comfortable explaining how Stripe works to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Understands how to write good, clean code in multiple programming languages, as well as how to read code that might not be quite as well written.
• Ability to help users during working hours in the region you are in. This may occasionally include providing weekend coverage for monitoring/supporting critical infrastructure, which TSEs are uniquely equipped to assist with given the team’s knowledge around Stripe’s products and active integrations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Enjoys writing in a clear and quick manner.
• General software engineering skills are important to us, as we understand that new languages and frameworks can be learned if you understand the concepts.
• Experience teaching or coaching developers.
• Comfort working with a great deal of autonomy and limited supervision.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software/Computer Engineering, or a related analytical field of study.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a leading financial infrastructure platform.
• Remote work options.
• Professional development opportunities.

About the Company

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.