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About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 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 realworld complexity of how large enterprises actually use it. The traditional FDE playbooka oneengineerperuser approach that manually rebuilds context every rotationdoes not scale. We are building something different: an agentaugmented model where AI handles the contextheavy, 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 worlds most demanding enterprise users, delivering measurable authrate improvements, unblocking critical platform migrations, closing multiproduct integration gaps, and driving real revenue. If you want to solve hard user problems, build reusable platform solutions, and help shape how forwarddeployed engineering works as a discipline, this is the team. What youll do Work alongside AI agents to serve users at scale. AI agents maintain realtime 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 Stripes most strategic enterprise users to understand their revenue, billing, and payments requirements, translate what you learn into technical solutions, and bring that user reality back to product teams. This is a genuinely userfacing role, not merely reviewing a dashboard. Build across product boundaries. You will design and deploy products and solutions that address productmarketfit gaps, not just in Billing but across multiproduct boundaries (Payments + Invoicing + Global LPMs). You embed within Stripe product engineering teams to codevelop the highestleverage capabilities. Build reusable solutions, not oneoff 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 multiproduct failures you surface directly shape Stripes product strategy. You advocate for what users actually need based on what youve 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 Youre a strong engineer who also thinks like a product person. Youre comfortable with ambiguity, youd rather talk to a user than read a spec, and you care about whether the thing you built actually solved the problem. Think of an early engineer at a startup who played PM, did product discovery, partnered with users, and shipped. Youre also interested in working at the frontier of agentaugmented engineering, not just using AI tools but helping define how an engineering function operates alongside them. 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 problemsolving skills and the ability to quickly grasp complex technical and business domains. Clear communicator, both written and verbal, with technical and nontechnical 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 codevelop solutions. This is a core part of the role. Willingness to travel (~2030%) 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 multiproduct 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 customerfacing engineering role. Prior experience in a fastpaced, ambiguous environment where priorities shift based on user needs. Interest in or experience with AIaugmented engineering: working with AI agents, LLMpowered tooling, or building workflows where humans and AI collaborate. Hybrid work This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office). Officeassigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users, while remote workers regularly work from home. Stripe does not cover relocation costs for remote positions. 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$172,000CA$258,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicants 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr