Stripe

Specialist Solutions Architect, Payments

Stripe
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4 hours ago
Dublin, Ireland or London, United KingdomSenior
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe’s Optimized Checkout Suite, Adaptive Pricing, Managed Payments, Orchestration, and BNPL integrations.
  • Design payment optimization, multi-PSP, and orchestration architectures for global enterprises.
  • Advise customers on global payment methods, BNPL strategy, regulatory considerations, and checkout and billing integration patterns.
  • Create reference architectures, reusable assets, and best practices for the broader go-to-market organization.
  • Partner with Payments product sales on complex opportunities, lead solution strategy, and own key customer relationships.
  • Represent customer needs internally to influence product and feature prioritization.
  • Identify trends in payment orchestration, cost optimization, and alternative payment methods and provide actionable insights.
  • Drive complex technical issues to resolution with Stripe engineering teams.
  • Support executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in payments, fintech, or a closely related industry in presales, solutions architecture, or technical consulting.
  • Strong knowledge of global payment methods, including cards, wallets, bank-based methods, and BNPL, with regional and regulatory context.
  • Experience designing payment optimization architectures for large enterprises, including multi-PSP environments and orchestration layers.
  • Knowledge of authorization improvement levers including local acquiring, network tokenization, 3DS, and smart retries.
  • Strong knowledge of software engineering and API integration patterns.
  • Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to build collaborative relationships and work effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful payment APIs into web applications is preferred.
  • Knowledge of ISO payment standards, card network rules, payment cost modeling, interchange optimization, processor benchmarking, and marketplace or platform payment flows is preferred.
  • Experience with Stripe Connect, multi-party transactions, or relevant industry, vertical, or product expertise is preferred.

Benefits

  • Approximately 25% travel is anticipated.
  • The role includes collaboration with sales, pre-sales, product, engineering, and go-to-market teams.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Stripe

About Stripe

5,001-10,000 employees

Stripe builds programmable financial services. 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. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.