About this Solutions Engineer (Europe) — Platform Solutions Group role at Freedompay
What You'll Do
Own the Technical Engine for Every Opportunity
- Take full ownership of the technical workstream on enterprise opportunities — from first discovery call through contract signature
- Build and drive the solution narrative: architecture, integration approach, platform fit, and commercial rationale
- Stay ahead of the deal — proactively identify technical risks, gaps, and objections before they surface in the room
- Serve as the senior escalation point on advanced solutioning across high-impact opportunities
- Attach early to opportunities and work shoulder-to-shoulder with Sales from qualification through close
- Align solution strategy to the client's business outcomes and the commercial objective — you understand both
- Co-own deal strategy with your Sales counterpart — technical positioning, competitive differentiation, stakeholder mapping
- Own the room in executive-level client discussions — build credibility, neutralize objections, accelerate decisions
- Drive RFI/RFP responses with sharp, solution-oriented narratives that make the technical case for FreedomPay
- Conduct deep technical discovery to map client systems, data flows, and integration requirements
- Design scalable, secure solutions across FreedomPay's platform — APIs, hosted fields, payment orchestration, token vault, middleware, and data feeds
- Guide clients through integration strategies across POS, eCommerce, mobile, and partner ecosystems in European markets
- Stay engaged post-signature on strategic accounts — identify opportunities for expanded platform adoption across products, integrations, and use cases
- Support Acquire and Expand motions across the portfolio in partnership with Sales and Account Management
- Partner with Product and Engineering to validate approaches and feed field insights back into platform development
- Develop reusable reference architectures, integration patterns, and technical playbooks
- Create client-facing materials — architecture diagrams, integration guides, solution narratives — that raise the bar across the team
- Mentor Sales Engineers on advanced solutioning and enterprise deal strategy
Partner with Sales to Win
Architect What Others Can't
Expand Revenue Within the Portfolio
Build Scalable Assets
Requirements
- 8–10+ years in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, or a comparable client-facing technical role
- Deep payments / fintech domain expertise — you understand how money moves, including the European landscape: PSD2 / SCA, SEPA, local card schemes, multi-acquirer setups, and cross-border and DCC flows
- Strong command of APIs, enterprise integration architecture, and payment flows across POS, eCommerce, and mobile
- Proven track record influencing large, complex enterprise deals through technical positioning
- Instinct for working with Sales — you know how to be the technical co-pilot without slowing the deal down
- Executive presence — you can go deep with an architect and board-level with C-level
- Cross-functional instincts — Sales, Product, Engineering — you know how to work all three
- Based in Europe, with the ability to travel across EU markets for client meetings, workshops, and go-lives
Nice to Have
- Experience with payment certifications, gateway integrations, and processor workflows
- Background supporting both net-new enterprise pursuits and existing client expansion
- Exposure to large-scale, multi-system implementations across hospitality, retail, or enterprise verticals
- Fluency in Spanish or French, in addition to English — preferred for engaging clients and partners across Spain, France, and French- and Spanish-speaking markets