Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering
Checkout.com3 hours ago
Base Salary
$166k - $196k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior Solutions Engineering partner for top 50 accounts, strategic pursuits, and high-impact opportunities.
- Engage C-level, executive, product, engineering, architecture, security, and payments stakeholders to shape complex solutions.
- Define technical strategy covering discovery, solution architecture, integration approach, proof-of-concept design, technical validation, and go-live readiness.
- Translate enterprise merchant requirements into scalable Checkout.com solutions and explain architecture choices, trade-offs, risks, and outcomes.
- Provide thought leadership on payment performance, authorization and settlement flows, fraud and risk, tokenization, 3DS, and alternative payment methods.
- Lead or advise on strategic RFPs, RFIs, security and architecture reviews, executive workshops, board-level materials, and technical negotiations.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to remove blockers and deliver customer outcomes.
- Influence product strategy, technical enablement, operating models, and reusable assets based on strategic merchant and market insights.
- Mentor Solutions Engineers through coaching, deal reviews, knowledge sharing, and role modeling without direct people-management responsibility.
Requirements
- Significant experience in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Implementation Engineering, Technical Account Management, or a related customer-facing technical leadership role.
- Experience with large enterprise or strategic accounts in payments, fintech, SaaS, e-commerce, or another complex technology environment.
- Deep understanding of payments architecture, API-based integrations, distributed systems, security considerations, and enterprise implementation patterns.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, ambiguous requirements, and material commercial value.
- Executive presence and credibility with C-level leaders, architects, developers, product teams, commercial leaders, and delivery partners.
- Strong commercial judgment, strategic thinking, and ability to connect technical recommendations to customer outcomes and business value.
- Ability to influence without authority and create alignment across internal teams and customer organizations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex technical subjects.
- Ability to work hands-on when needed by reviewing API behavior, logs, architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and proof-of-concept results.
- Preferred experience with payment performance, payment methods, fraud and risk, 3DS, network tokenization, wallets, enterprise architecture workshops, executive briefings, technical due diligence, or complex transformation programs.
- Preferred background as an engineer, developer, product leader, enterprise architect, or senior technical consultant, with familiarity with payments standards, regulations, schemes, and global commerce operations.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model with three days per week in the office.
- Accessibility support is available during the application process and in the work environment.
- Employees receive meaningful ownership, growth opportunities, and work focused on high-impact challenges.
About Checkout.com
Checkout.com builds a global payments platform for enterprise merchants, offering card acquiring, payment processing, issuing, and risk/fraud tools across 145+ currencies. It serves ecommerce and digital businesses and earns primarily through transaction and service fees, with direct integrations to schemes like Visa, Mastercard, and Amex. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in London, the privately held company counts brands such as Spotify, eBay, Uber, Klarna, and Sony among its customers.