stripe
Forward Deployed Engineer, Professional Services
About this role
Stripe is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join their new Professional Services team, building custom software solutions and scalable Stripe integrations directly for enterprise clients. You'll architect production applications, collaborate across technical and business stakeholders, and help shape the direction of this emerging consulting service.
What you'll do
- Design and architect secure, scalable technical solutions aligned with customer needs
- Build and deploy production applications combining user business logic, Stripe best practices, and user-facing interfaces
- Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to bridge technical and business requirements
- Engage directly with users to understand challenges and co-develop custom solutions
- Contribute reusable tooling, frameworks, and best practices to scale impact across multiple accounts
- Drive the strategic direction and technical initiatives of the Forward Deployed Engineering team
What they're looking for
- Full-stack development (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Ruby, Go, or Java)
- Backend infrastructure and scalable systems design
- Production application deployment and management
- Rapid prototyping with quality standards
- Containerized applications and object-oriented programming
- API design and distributed systems
- Problem-solving and business acumen
- AI API integration and modern development tools
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stripe
Stripe builds payment infrastructure and financial services platforms, offering APIs and tools that enable developers and businesses to process transactions, detect fraud, verify identity, and manage security at scale. The company is hiring Backend Engineers, Full Stack Engineers, ML Engineers, AI Engineers, and Security Engineers to develop core platform systems, payment intelligence, customer support infrastructure, and security data platforms.
- Website
- stripe.com
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about a production application you've designed and deployed end-to-end, and how you ensured it met both technical and business requirements.
- Describe your experience working with payment processing systems or financial platforms—what challenges did you encounter?