Backend Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering
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.
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Backend Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering at Stripe in Seattle. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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