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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. Hybrid work at Stripe This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office). In-office expectations Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams. Working remotely at Stripe A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live. Pay and
benefits The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is CA$172,000 - CA$258,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is
the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for
the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience,
qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process. Specific
benefits and details about what
compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process.
Benefits/additional
compensation for this role may include: equity, company
bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health
Launched out of Y Combinator’s 2009 Summer batch, Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online Stripe is a proud partner of YC companies—from Airbnb (S09) to Defog (W23)—to help them grow their businesses and increase the GDP of the internet.
