Solutions Architect, Enterprise (German fluency)

Monograph; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 142,890 - 214,335; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Retirement plans

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Solutions Architect to collaborate with Sales and customers in Germany, translating business needs into Stripe solutions. You’ll design robust technical architectures, demonstrate capabilities, and drive customer success in complex, mission-critical environments.

You’ll engage CTOs and engineers, own solution deep dives, and produce reference architectures. A strong background in payments and e-commerce is a plus, and this role supports office or remote work from Germany.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in roles including pre-sales, technical architecture, and engineering.
• Strong breadth across technology stacks with deep hands-on skills.
• Ability to write code and discuss technical concepts with credibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discussions and solution deep dives with users on Stripe value.
• Engage with customers and cross-functional teams to define architecture roadmaps.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Technical architecture

Software architecture

Code writing

German and English fluency

Job description

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 Solutions Architecture team works with our largest, most complex users to understand their technical requirements and map those to Stripe technology.

As a Solutions Architect, you will partner with Sales to technically qualify new business opportunities, demonstrate the art of the possible with the Stripe Platform, and design robust technical solutions to enable payment transactions, manage money movements and simplify financial operational processes.

What you’ll do

You are an experienced technologist with a blend of technical depth and strong business consulting skills. You can write code, but prefer to spend your time working with users to create Stripe solutions to support customer business objectives in complex, mission critical environments. You will think strategically about the art of the possible for the user’s business, and be able to clearly articulate that in a way that informs and builds confidence in Stripe’s technology.

You should be able to engage and motivate cross-functionally both internally and within our customer’s organisations at all levels, from Cx to Product Engineering. You will have a track record of delivering exceptional customer results as part of a pre-sales team, but a history of deep technical work that gives you the ability to be credible with any audience.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Chief Technical Officers, engineering leads, and other technical leads at key users to share technology roadmaps, demonstrate the latest innovations, and define a solution strategy to solve problems.
  
• Lead technical discussions and solution deep dives with users on the value Stripe can provide to them.
  
• Serve as an advocate for your customers internally, to ensure their needs are represented with product engineering and to influence product direction and priorities.
  
• Create technical content (reference architectures, demos, etc.) to share with users as well as speak as a thought leader at industry conferences.
  

Who you are

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

• 7+ years work experience or equivalent in any mixture of roles including pre-sales, technical architecture (application, technical, systems, integration), technical consulting, application delivery or technical engineering role, with at least 4 years in a customer facing pre-sales role.
  
• Possess strong technical knowledge in software architecture, have breadth across technology stacks with deep hands on skills, and comfortable talking about technical concepts and explaining how they work, both from a product feature and API architecture perspective.
  
• Ability to write code.
  
• Experience with large enterprise customers.
  
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities, including presenting to large audiences in both German and English.
  

Preferred qualifications

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

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

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.

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.

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €125,600 - €188,400. 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.

Office locations

Berlin

Remote locations

Remote in Germany

Team

Solutions Architect

Job type

Full time