Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, used by millions of companies from the world’s largest enterprises to ambitious startups. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, offering you an unprecedented opportunity to impact the global economy while doing the most important work of your career.

The Solutions Architecture team partners with our largest, most complex users to understand their technical requirements and map those to Stripe technology. As a Solutions Architect, you will collaborate closely with Sales to technically qualify new business opportunities, demonstrate the possibilities of the Stripe Platform, and design robust technical solutions to enable payment transactions, manage money movements, and simplify financial operational processes.

You are an experienced technologist with a blend of technical depth and strong business consulting skills. While you can write code, you prefer working directly with users to create Stripe solutions that support customer business objectives in complex, mission-critical environments. You think strategically about the art of the possible for the user’s business and communicate this clearly to build confidence in Stripe’s technology. You engage and motivate cross-functionally both internally and within customer organizations at all levels, from CxOs to Product Engineering.

Your responsibilities include engaging with Chief Technical Officers, engineering leads, and other technical stakeholders to share technology roadmaps, demonstrate innovations, and define solution strategies. You will lead technical discussions and solution deep dives, advocate for customer needs internally to influence product direction, participate in quarterly business reviews, identify new opportunities, and collaborate on detailed account planning. Additionally, you will create technical content such as reference architectures and demos, and represent Stripe as a thought leader at industry conferences.

Experience
- 4+ years of work experience or equivalent in roles such as pre-sales, technical architecture (application, technical, systems or integration), technical consulting, application delivery, or technical engineering.
- At least 4 years in a customer-facing pre-sales role.
- Strong technical knowledge in software architecture with breadth across technology stacks and deep hands-on skills.
- Comfortable discussing technical concepts and explaining product features and API architecture.
- Experience with large enterprise customers.
- Ability to write code.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including presenting to large audiences.

About you
You are a strategic thinker and effective communicator who can engage stakeholders at all levels. You have a track record of delivering exceptional customer results and can motivate cross-functional teams. You are passionate about technology and customer success, able to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable solutions.

Qualifications
A background in payments systems and e-commerce solutions is a plus but not required.