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 Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team exists to solve the hardest problems our most complex enterprise users face, and to turn those solutions into platform capabilities that scale to everyone. We work across Revenue Suite, Payments, and adjacent products. This is not a support function. It is an engineering team that sits at the boundary between Stripe's platform and the real-world complexity of how large enterprises actually use it.

The traditional FDE playbook, one engineer per user who manually rebuilds context every rotation, is how every infrastructure company has done it for a decade. It does not scale. We are building something different: an agent-augmented model where AI handles the context-heavy, structured work (integration mapping, state reconciliation, infrastructure shadow testing, diagnostics) and human FDEs focus on the parts that require engineering judgment, product thinking, and direct user relationships. The goal is to build engineering muscle that lets us serve every strategic user through the platform, not just the handful we can staff individually.

We've proven the approach with some of the world's most demanding enterprise users, delivering measurable auth rate improvements, unblocking critical platform migrations, closing multi-product integration gaps, and driving real revenue. Now we're scaling the model. If you want to solve hard user problems, build reusable platform solutions, and help shape how forward deployed engineering works as a discipline, this is the team. 

What you’ll do

As an Engineer on the RFA Forward Deployed Engineering team, you will:

• Work alongside AI agents to serve users at scale. This is central to how our team operates. AI agents maintain real-time integration maps, run shadow tests against user setups, and perform automated state reconciliation between Stripe and user systems. Your job is the work that requires an engineer: making judgment calls on ambiguous problems, building relationships with user engineering teams, making product decisions, and designing solutions. You will also help shape the tooling itself, identifying what should be automated and what needs to stay human.
• Engage directly with users. You will work with Stripe's most strategic enterprise users to understand their revenue, billing, and payments requirements. You translate what you learn into technical solutions, and you bring that user reality back to product teams. This is a genuinely user-facing role, not user-facing in the "I read a dashboard" sense.
• Build across product boundaries. You will design and deploy products and solutions that address product-market fit gaps, not just in Billing but across multi-product boundaries (Payments + Invoicing + Global LPMs). You embed within Stripe product engineering teams to co-develop the highest-leverage capabilities.
• Build reusable solutions, not one-off fixes. Contribute to a customization framework for RFA and adjacent products: tailored billing logic, financial workflows, integrations (custom metering, product catalog integrations, checkout flows). Build patterns and blueprints that scale beyond the individual engagement.
• Provide architectural guidance. Review user architectures, advise on best practices, and optimize integration and performance for complex enterprise environments. Contribute to a growing library of architectural patterns for the field.
• Resolve critical technical challenges. Diagnose and fix complex product/engineering problems across the stack. Identify systemic improvements that prevent recurrence and improve platform stability.
• Inform the product roadmap. The integration gaps, migration friction, and multi-product failures you surface directly shape Stripe's product strategy. You advocate for what users actually need based on what you've seen firsthand.
• Raise the bar on engineering. Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes within the team. Help build for sustainability as the team grows.

Who you are

You're a strong engineer who also thinks like a product person. You're comfortable with ambiguity, you'd rather talk to a user than read a spec, and you care about whether the thing you built actually solved the problem. Think: early engineer at a startup who played PM, did product discovery, partnered with users, and shipped. You're also interested in working at the frontier of agent-augmented engineering, not just using AI tools but helping define how an engineering function operates alongside them.

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on backend systems.
• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain 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.
• Clear communicator, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical stakeholders including external users.
• Track record of working well in collaborative environments 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.
• Willingness to travel (~20-30%) to Stripe sites (Toronto, SF, Seattle) and user locations.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with financial automation or billing products (e.g., Stripe Billing, Tax, Revenue Recognition, or similar).
• Experience with multi-product integration: stitching together payments, invoicing, billing, and related systems.
• Familiarity with extensibility models, custom solution frameworks, or platform development.
• Experience working with large enterprise users or in a customer-facing engineering role.
• Prior experience in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where priorities shift based on user needs.
• Interest in or experience with AI-augmented engineering: working with AI agents, LLM-powered tooling, or building workflows where humans and AI collaborate.

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 Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) team at Stripe is building a modern, revenue-focused, financial management platform for fast growing, digital native companies. 

• Billing: Hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes and types use Stripe Billing to collect revenue for recurring and one-time payments across a variety of different pricing models—from selling SaaS subscriptions, to orchestrating multi-stage contracts, delivering Usage-Based Billing, and providing recovery and retention tools to prevent customer churn.
• Tax: You know how everyone loves taxes? And it's such a simple, stable, and well-understood area? We handle all the sales-related taxes (across Checkout & Billing) and make it super easy to register, auto-collect the right amount of tax, and access the reports you need to file returns globally

Note: exact team matching for one of the pods will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here. 

What you’ll do

As an engineer on the team, you’ll be responsible for shaping and building a suite of products that let our users model and operate their business more efficiently. You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day. In this cross functional role, you will collaborate with experts in infrastructure, security, design, and operations to build mission critical internal and external features that power Stripe users around the world. 

Responsibilities

• Design the next generation of Stripe products, to meet the high growth needs of our company and customers for years to come.
• Deliver value through a strong collaborative and users-first approach with stakeholders and customers.
• Mentor engineers to help them grow
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 2-12+ years of experience in backend software development
• Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++, etc.)
• Hands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems
• Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures
• Experience with subscription management, usage-based billing, or financial reporting systems
• Interest in financial infrastructure and how businesses manage their revenue operations
• Direct leadership and mentorship experience

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

Stripe Billing helps businesses automate and scale how they charge for products and services. Our team builds the systems that define pricing models, power subscriptions and invoicing, process usage-based billing, and help users manage revenue operations with flexibility and confidence.

As businesses grow, their billing needs become more complex. Billing works across product surfaces and backend systems to make that complexity manageable through reliable, extensible infrastructure and thoughtful product-platform design. This role sits across the Billing organization and will help shape the technical direction of core systems used by a broad range of Stripe users.

What you’ll do

As a Staff Software Engineer on Billing, you’ll lead the design and evolution of backend systems that power some of Stripe’s most important product experiences. You’ll work at the intersection of platform architecture and user impact, building the foundations that allow businesses to model, launch, and scale new ways of charging their customers.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys owning complex technical problems end to end: defining architecture, improving system design, making pragmatic tradeoffs, and partnering closely with product and engineering leaders. You’ll help Billing become more scalable, composable, and adaptable while mentoring other engineers and raising the quality of technical decision-making across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and delivery of foundational backend systems that support subscriptions, invoicing, and usage-based billing
• Design extensible platform capabilities that enable new product use cases while preserving reliability, performance, and ease of iteration
• Drive technical direction across teams by making clear architectural choices, aligning stakeholders, and turning long-term strategy into concrete execution
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and adjacent platform teams to build systems that balance user needs with maintainability and scale
• Improve the quality of system design and domain modeling across the organization through technical leadership, design reviews, and hands-on guidance
• Mentor senior engineers and help develop the next generation of technical leaders within Billing
• Contribute directly to implementation when needed, especially in high-leverage or technically complex areas of the codebase

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience building and operating large-scale backend or platform systems
• Demonstrated track record of leading the technical design and delivery of complex, ambiguous product/platform initiatives that span multiple teams or major product areas and deliver measurable business impact.
• Strong systems design skills, including experience building scalable, extensible architectures in domains with evolving requirements
• Experience working with distributed and asynchronous systems in production environments
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and to drive alignment and delivery across organizational boundaries
• Regular, hands-on code contributions and code-review activity in production systems; comfortable shipping, debugging, and iterating in large codebases.
• Comfortable operating under both technical and business ambiguity: able to translate business goals into technical strategy and present recommendations to senior engineering and business stakeholders.
• Accountability for organizational outcomes — you own both your technical contributions and the success of the teams/organizations you support.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building billing, payments, financial systems, or other configurable business platforms
• Experience with domain-driven design and strong domain modeling in complex software systems
• Experience leading re-architecture or migration efforts in mature production systems
• Experience working in large engineering organizations with substantial cross-functional and cross-team dependencies; track record of driving cross-org initiatives to completion.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Ruby, Java, Kafka, Flink, or MongoDB