Solutions Architect, Platforms (German-Speaking)

Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Solutions Architecture team works with the largest and most complex users to understand their technical requirements and map those requirements to Stripe technology.

This role partners with Sales to technically qualify new business opportunities, demonstrate the capabilities of the Stripe Platform, and design robust technical solutions that enable payment transactions, manage money movements, and simplify financial operational processes.

The ideal candidate is an experienced technologist with strong business consulting skills who can write code and work with users to create Stripe solutions for complex, mission-critical environments. The role involves engaging with stakeholders from C-level executives to product engineering teams and delivering exceptional customer results as part of a pre-sales team.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Chief Technical Officers, engineering leads, and other technical leaders at key users to share technology roadmaps, demonstrate the latest innovations, and define solution strategies.
• Lead technical discussions and solution deep dives with users about the value Stripe can provide.
• Advocate for customers internally to ensure their needs are represented with product engineering and to influence product direction and priorities.
• Create technical content, including reference architectures and demos, to share with users.
• Speak as a thought leader at industry conferences.

Requirements

• 7+ years of work experience or equivalent in a combination of pre-sales, technical architecture, application architecture, systems architecture, integration, technical consulting, application delivery, or technical engineering roles.
• At least 2 years of experience in a customer-facing pre-sales role.
• Strong technical knowledge of software architecture, broad familiarity across technology stacks, and deep hands-on technical skills.
• Ability to discuss technical concepts and explain how they work from both a product-feature and API-architecture perspective.
• Ability to write code.
• Experience working with large enterprise customers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present to large audiences in both German and English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in payment systems and e-commerce solutions.