Technical Solutions Engineer

Nerdleveltech; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Technical Solutions Engineer to help developers integrate and scale Stripe’s APIs. You will explain technical concepts, assist with integrations, and create guides and code samples that empower our users to be successful.

This remote role favors candidates in the Mountain or Pacific time zones. You’ll collaborate with multiple engineering teams, teach best practices, and support a wide range of languages including Java, Python, Ruby, Go, and NodeJS.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of full-stack software development experience.
• Experience explaining technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Ability to read and understand code in multiple languages.
• Willingness to provide occasional weekend coverage for critical infra.

Responsibilities

• Explain concepts about Stripe’s products to developers across multiple languages.
• Build and debug integrations and produce guides and code samples.
• Develop and maintain documentation, examples, and demos.
• Identify friction points and collaborate with engineering to improve products.
• Develop internal tooling and act as a developer advocate for the organization.
• Deliver training and respond to integration questions in real time.

Skills

Full-stack development

Explain technical concepts

Documentation writing

Developer advocacy

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

CS/Software Engineering degree

Tools

Java

Python

Ruby

PHP

Go

NodeJS

.NET

ReactJS

React Native

Swift

Objective-C

Kotlin

Job description

Headquarters: Seattle, WA, Remote-US

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

Stripe is beloved by developers for the simplicity of our APIs, the thoroughness of our documentation, and our focus on developer experience. The Technical Solutions Engineering (TSE) team is the glue that supports our developer-users and champions developer experience as being central to the overall experience of our users. TSE interacts directly with developer-users more than any other team at Stripe, so your role will have a significant impact on what Stripe is known for and values most. When we do our job well, developers all over the world are able to smoothly launch and grow their businesses on Stripe, whether they’re integrating payments for the first time or building complex financial systems.

What you’ll do

TSEs understand the fundamentals of programming incredibly well and eagerly jump in and familiarize themselves with others’ code. You will do a wide variety of things, including explaining technical concepts about Stripe’s products, build and debug integrations with developers, and produce/improve guides that help our users solve particular problems to be successful with Stripe. You will interact with developers of all skill levels through a variety of mediums, enabling them to be successful when using Stripe.

Early on, current team members will devote a large amount of time to teaching you and helping you get to a level of comfort and expertise with Stripe, its services, and how we interact with users. Later, we’d love for you to take on this role with others on the team and Stripes broadly, as teaching is a great way to learn and to reinforce what you know.

If you’re someone who enjoys working with all kinds of code, is a fast researcher, a strong writer, and enthusiastic about helping others build mission-critical products with Stripe, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Communicate with a number of external developers and aid them in building their applications against Stripe’s infrastructure in a number of programming languages (including Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, NodeJS, .NET, ReactJS, React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, and Java for Android).
• Unblock external developers with their thorniest integration challenges through a variety of support channels including email, ticketing software, internal issue trackers, community platforms (like StackOverflow), and real-time chat software (like Slack and Discord)
• Develop and maintain internal and external documentation, examples, integration demos, and code-snippets that demonstrate usage patterns of the Stripe infrastructure.
• Identify points of friction developers encounter and collaborate with engineering teams to make Stripe products better. Participate in a number of extended engineering teams’ regular planning sessions, design reviews, and development meetings.
• Develop and maintain a suite of internal support tooling for TSE and Stripe Support more broadly e.g. a retrieval augmented generation LLM-based Copilot tool or the Invoice Explainer Admin tool.
• Act as a developer advocate and educational resource internal to the organization by regularly assembling training for non-developers internal to the organization and responding in real-time to product integration questions.

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.

This role is remote but requires candidates to be located in the Mountain or Pacific time zones.

Minimum requirements

• At least 4 years of full-stack software development experience, with a proven track record of building web or mobile applications that deliver high-quality user experiences
• Direct experience explaining technical concepts, and would be comfortable explaining how Stripe works to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Understands how to write good, clean code in multiple programming languages, as well as how to read code that might not be quite as well written
• Ability to help users during working hours in the region you are in. This may occasionally include providing weekend coverage for monitoring/supporting critical infrastructure, which TSEs are uniquely equipped to assist with given the team’s knowledge around Stripe’s products and active integrations. The team is largely remote, and we are very supportive of working arrangements that allow for family care and other needs to be met.

Preferred qualifications

• Enjoys writing in a clear and quick manner
• General software engineering skills are important to us, as we understand that new languages and frameworks can be learned if you understand the concepts
• Experience teaching or coaching developers
• Comfort working with a great deal of autonomy and limited supervision
• Degree in Computer Science, Software/Computer Engineering, or a related analytical field of study