Demo Engineer

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the worlds 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Our Product Marketing teams mission is to generate customer insights that inform Stripes product strategy and lead go-to-market for our suite of products. Product Marketing is a highly cross-functional role at Stripe partnering closely with Product and Engineering Sales Partnerships Demand Generation and Campaigns to name a few. Different from many other Product Marketing teams our team works across the entire product lifecycle from helping shape the product to driving launch and commercialization to growing product adoption post-launch.

What youll do

Were looking for a Demo Engineer to build the onstage product demos that anchor our product announcement keynotes at Sessions our annual user conference and our global Stripe Tour event series. This role sits at the intersection of engineering product comms and marketing. Partnering closely with product teams across the organization youll own the keynote demos for our most exciting product launches end to endfrom concept and architecture to polish and rehearsalsso theyre technically flawless and narratively unforgettable.

Responsibilities

Demo ownership and storytelling

• Own the creation of all keynote demos (code and dashboard) across Stripes portfolio from concept to live delivery ensuring each demo maps to the keynote narrative and business goals.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to scope each demo: define technical requirements dependencies and success criteria; storyboard flows that showcase the key details of each product.
• Work closely with PMM Comms and Product to align each demo to key story beats in the keynote script.

Technical architecture and engineering

• Architect and build robust demo apps and environments (frontend backend services data pipelines).
• Sweat the details: configure environments provision accounts set realistic sample data and wire integrations/webhooks.
• Build internal tooling and frameworks to accelerate and safeguard make demo production.

Collaboration and production support

• Collaborate with Design and Marketing to craft clear legible onscreen moments and create supporting assets (screens snippets animations backup videos).
• Orchestrate demo rehearsals and runofshow and train our on-stage demoers.
• Travel to be onsite for flagship events (SF and NY) and key Tour events; support live ops during show days including nonstandard hours.

Minimum Requirements

• 5 years in software engineering (or equivalent).
• Experience in demo engineering solutions architecture sales engineering or developer relations is a plus.
• Payments/fintech AV/show production familiarity and hardware/POS experience are nice to have.
• Flexibility. Willing to travel (2030%) and support nonstandard hours around major events.

Preferred Qualifications

• An engineerstoryteller. You can turn complex capabilities into crisp memorable moments.
• Fullstack capable. Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node/React) and/or Python; comfortable with APIs webhooks OAuth and data stores (e.g. Postgres/Redis); familiar with common deployment infrastructure such as GCP and AWS.
• A builder. You have experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications and can quickly build high quality demos that meet our standards of craft.
• Reliabilityobsessed. You design for live demos with fallbacks and risk mitigation in mind.
• Structured and strategic. You create storyboards technical specs and checklists; you manage version control and environments with discipline; you bring order to fast highstakes work.
• Calm under pressure. Youve supported live demos or launches and keep your cool when something unexpected happens; you think in contingencies.
• Collaborative. You work seamlessly with Product Eng PMM Design Comms and show production; strong stakeholder management and clear communication.
• Organized. You can juggle multiple demos rehearsals and timelines across global events; strong project management and documentation habits.