Solutions Architect, Enterprise (French fluency)

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 Solutions Architecture team works with our largest and most complex users to understand their business and technical requirements and map those to Stripe technology. We design robust technical solutions and seamlessly embed those into our users' financial infrastructures to help them facilitate payment transactions, manage money movements, and simplify operational processes.

What You'll Do

• Drive thought leadership and build executive relationships with key technical stakeholders including CEO, CTO, Head of Payments, etc.
• Be a domain expert in Stripe core technology and product suites
• Work to deeply understand users' business objectives and co‑develop a financial services roadmap and reference architecture
• Expand our footprint within existing users to new global markets by introducing new capabilities
• Collaborate with multiple internal stakeholders including Go‑To‑Market, Product and Engineering, Marketing, Legal, Risk, etc., to drive technical wins for our users
• Act as the voice of the customer to influence our product roadmap on insights, trends, and opportunities across our users
• Work closely with professional services and partners to accelerate activations and time to live

Who You Are

• A capable engineer, with previous background building web or mobile applications and experience working with customers or partners in a customer‑facing solution development role
• Possess strong technical knowledge in software architecture, have breadth across technology stacks with deep hands‑on skills, and be comfortable talking about technical concepts and explaining how they work, both from a product feature and API architecture perspective
• A great communicator, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Interested in solving open‑ended business problems with a combination of technology and creative thinking
• Experienced working in the sales lifecycle and driving outcomes in a customer‑facing environment

Minimum Requirements

• Comfortable writing code in a few of our primary deployment languages (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, etc.) and enjoys learning new languages and technologies
• Has experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications
• Has a background working in a similar customer‑facing role (e.g., solutions architect, sales engineer, or partner engineer)
• 4+ years of experience
• Thrives in a cross‑functional, collaborative environment
• High professional fluency in French and English

Preferred Qualifications

• Spanish or Italian language skills
• A background in payments systems and ecommerce solutions

In‑Office Expectations

Office‑assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico; Bengaluru, India; and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Some teams have greater in‑office attendance requirements, which the hiring manager will discuss.

Pay and Benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €94,700 - €142,100. 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 benefits, and wellness stipends.