Staff Engineer, RFA Forward Deployed Engineering
Staff Engineer, RFA Forward Deployed Engineering
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Job Description
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
The RFA Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team is a pivotal new unit dedicated to accelerating Stripes strategic growth and market leadership in enterprise Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA). This is no ordinary engineering role; its a unique leadership opportunity to be at the forefront of how Stripe builds and iterates on its products. Were directly tackling the most complex challenges faced by Stripes largest and most strategic enterprise users bridging the gap between their intricate financial operations and our core product capabilities.
Unlike traditional professional services our mission is to identify and rapidly close critical Product-Market Fit (PMF) gaps in RFA. We often co-develop bespoke solutions and extensibility frameworks that will ultimately benefit a broader range of users across our entire product suite. Youll get to embed directly with key enterprise users especially those in the high-growth AI segment to deeply understand their unique challenges. Your work will involve rapid prototyping building key product enhancements and developing a scalable solutions framework that combines out-of-the-box functionality with robust customization capabilities. If youre passionate about solving complex real-world problems for high-profile clients and actively shaping the future of financial automation at Stripe this team offers an unparalleled opportunity to make a significant and lasting impact.
What youll do
As a Staff Engineer on the RFA Forward Deployed Engineering team you will:
Responsibilities
- Lead with a product-first mindset: Youll be a leader in understanding our users ambiguous niche needs and translating them into elegant scalable technical solutions that address specific business problems.
- Drive product evolution through co-development: Design build and deploy critical enhancements and custom solutions to address product-market fit gaps ensuring RFA meets the nuanced needs of large enterprises. You will also embed directly within RFA engineering teams to co-develop the highest leverage capabilities for our users ensuring your solutions seamlessly integrate and enhance Stripes core offerings.
- Pioneer extensibility: Contribute to the development of a robust and intuitive customization framework for RFA enabling tailored billing logic financial workflows and integrations. Youll be the primary contributor of solutions to the RFA Suite of Solutions building the toolkit that empowers enterprise customers to customize Stripe for their unique needs.
- Provide expert architectural guidance: Review user architectures offer expert guidance on best practices and optimize system integration and performance for complex enterprise environments. Your insights will be crucial to successful deployments and will help build a library of architectural guidance for the field team.
- Strategically resolve critical challenges: Act as the primary technical contact for high-impact user issues leading the charge to diagnose and resolve complex product/engineering challenges across the stack. Youll not only fix problems but also identify systemic improvements preventing future occurrences and influencing core product stability and long-term reliability.
- Directly influence product and engineering strategy: Provide direct user-centric feedback to core product teams advocating for features and capabilities essential for enterprise adoption and actively shaping the future of Stripes RFA offerings. Youll lead design reviews and provide strategic feedback to other engineers on the team mentoring them and helping to build a world-class engineering culture.
- Help build and grow the team: Play a key role in building the team and developing the FDE model helping to define our processes best practices and hiring strategy as we scale. You will be a foundational member of the team helping us grow from a small focused unit to a scalable company-wide function.
- Elevate engineering standards: Elevate engineering standards tooling and processes within the team contributing to a high-quality maintainable codebase and efficient development lifecycle. Youll help us build for scale and sustainability.
Who you are
Were looking for a seasoned and experienced engineer who thrives in a dynamic user-focused environment and is excited by the challenge of building bespoke solutions that pave the way for broader product capabilities. This is a chance to wear many hats and have a direct tangible impact on Stripes most strategic initiatives stepping into a key leadership position within a foundational new team.
Minimum requirements
- 10 years of experience in software engineering with a strong focus on backend systems.
- Proven expertise in designing building and maintaining 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.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with technical and non-technical stakeholders including external users. Youll be a bridge builder.
- A track record of thriving in collaborative environments working closely with product managers TPMs and other engineers.
- Willingness to engage directly with users to understand requirements and co-develop solutionsthis is a core part of the role.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with RFA products such as Stripe Billing Tax and Revenue Recognition.
- Experience with extensibility models custom solution frameworks or platform development.
- Experience working with large enterprise users or in a user-facing engineering role.
- Prior experience in a fast-paced ambiguous environment where priorities can shift based on user needs and you thrive on that challenge.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
