Demo Engineer, Solutions Architecture

About the position

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. The Demo Engineering team is looking for product-focused engineers who are thoughtful about application design, high-polish user experiences, and great storytelling. We work to push Stripe’s mission of increasing the GDP of the internet by focusing our efforts on confidently showing users how our products work, not just telling them.

Responsibilities

• Work with a wide range of products and technologies to own and build polished end-to-end examples of how Stripe’s products and solutions work
• Oversee demo projects from start to finish, ensuring they are completed on time and meet goals, and coordinate with different teams to ensure successful demo execution
• Provide domain expertise and insights to craft well articulated stories and narratives
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as in product, design, sales, and marketing to design and build demos of Stripe’s newest products
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter

Requirements

• Has 2+ years of experience shipping high-quality user-facing products as a software engineer
• Experienced in common web development languages and frameworks, such as Node, React, Next.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript
• Familiar with common deployment infrastructure, such as GCP and AWS
• Enjoys building products across the stack to delight and engage users
• Familiar with common design tools like Figma
• Is a well-rounded engineer with strong product sense, communication and storytelling skills and has an eye for design
• Thrives in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts to build user-facing applications
• Enjoys working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise and backgrounds

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity and experience with demo creation tools in the market
• Experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications
• Experience with online and in-person payments, subscriptions, card issuing, or other relevant concepts
• Experience clearly communicating how products work together
• Experience as a subject matter expert in a relevant industry, vertical or product
• Experience building beautiful, responsive user interfaces using CSS frameworks