Specialist Solutions Architects (SSA) are domain experts aligned to specific Stripe solutions and customer buying centers. We have in-depth knowledge of specific solution offerings and a deep understanding of customer challenges. We align with specialist product sellers on deals, advise the broader pre-sales team on complex opportunities, support pipeline development and revenue attainment, serve as an advisor on go-to-market sales plays, and provide critical insights to our product and engineering teams.
Who we are
About Stripe
At Stripe, you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach. 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.
About the team
What you’ll do
As a Specialist Solution Architect, you will lead in-depth product discussions with our top users and prospects and execute against our go-to-market strategy for our Money Management products, including Stripe Capital, Issuing, Treasury, and our global Payouts suite. You will educate our product and engineering teams on market trends and strongly influence the product roadmap for the Money Management product suite at Stripe, helping us become the primary way merchants run their businesses.
Responsibilities
- Act as a subject matter expert on Stripe’s Money Management products (including Capital, Issuing, Treasury, and our global Payouts suite) to accelerate opportunities.
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of embedded finance applications that leverage Stripe’s products, articulating how they combine to create a compounding platform for our users.
- Consult with users on a broad range of embedded finance use cases, from charge card programs and global payouts to a comprehensive suite of financing options including revenue-based financing, loans, and lines of credit.
- Understand the compliance requirements of solutions built with Stripe products, especially as we expand our offerings into new markets and use cases.
- Define, share, and learn best practices and reusable assets with the broader GTM organization to enhance the quality and efficiency of the team.
- Create reference architectures to uplevel the team and refine reference solutions based on product enhancements and feedback from customers.
- Partner closely with the Money Management product sales team and be an active part of the opportunity team for Stripe’s largest customers to lead strategy and own key relationships.
- Serve as a “Voice of the Customer” internally, providing actionable insights to product stakeholders to influence the Money Management product roadmap and feature prioritization.
- Provide critical insights on emerging technologies, including the application of stablecoins for money movement, lending, and global financial access, to influence the product roadmap.
- Deeply understand the sales process for the product and provide the Sales team with tools and training to qualify potential leads, including simplifying our distribution for faster onboarding.
- Stay current on competitive analysis and market differentiation.
- Support marketing events including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows.
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.
Minimum requirements
- 7+ years of experience in a technical sales, pre-sales, or solutions architecture role
- 3+ years of product experience with embedded finance solutions, such as card issuing, lending, or treasury management
- Experience with integrating RESTful APIs into web applications
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- A passion for learning and researching current and emerging products to develop innovative solutions
- A proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners
- Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
Preferred qualifications
- Strong knowledge of software engineering and architecture patterns, with the ability to understand how a wide variety of technologies and systems interact with each other
- Experience enabling and scaling a GTM team
- Experience in systems design, with a background building and deploying complex applications
Ovii Interpretation
This pre-sales solutions architect role supports Stripe’s Money Management products, helping major customers evaluate embedded finance solutions and advance complex sales opportunities. The work also brings customer and market insights to product teams and develops reusable architectures, sales tools, and team practices.
Role at a glance
Skills mentioned
What you will likely work on
- Advise customers on Stripe Capital, Issuing, Treasury, and Payouts, connecting product capabilities to embedded finance use cases.
- Consult on solutions such as card programs, global payouts, and financing options including loans and credit lines.
- Partner with product sales teams on major customer opportunities, shaping strategy and maintaining key relationships.
- Create and refine reference architectures and reusable practices using product updates and customer feedback.
- Share customer, market, competitive, and emerging-technology insights with product teams to inform roadmap and prioritization.
- Equip sales teams with tools and training to qualify opportunities and support faster onboarding.
- Contribute to go-to-market events, including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows.
- Understand compliance considerations for product solutions as offerings expand into new markets and use cases.
Good fit signals
- Has at least seven years in technical sales, pre-sales, or solutions architecture and at least three years with embedded finance products.
- Can explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences and present confidently.
- Has integrated REST APIs into web applications and can discuss embedded finance use cases such as issuing, lending, or treasury.
- Builds collaborative relationships with business partners and can work effectively amid ambiguity and rapid change.
- Knowledge of software architecture patterns, GTM team enablement, or complex application design and deployment is a plus.
Stripe builds financial software for businesses ranging from startups to global enterprises. Businesses use Stripe Payments and Terminal to accept payments online and in person, Billing to charge for subscriptions or usage, and Radar to detect fraud. Connect helps marketplaces collect payments and pay sellers. For example, Instacart uses Stripe to move money between customers, retailers and shoppers. Stripe also provides tools for invoicing, tax calculation, card issuing and international payouts.
- Founded
- 2010
- Company size
- 5,001–10,000 employees
- Company stage
- Not known
- Headquarters
- South San Francisco, Dublin, USA, Ireland
Why work here
Businesses processed $1.9 trillion on Stripe in 2025. For engineers, that scale makes payment reliability a practical problem. Stripe’s India Payments team, for example, connects local payment networks to global APIs and designs retries that avoid charging a customer twice. Other teams build fraud detection models and automate database recovery. Early-career hires receive a mentor and an annual education stipend for courses and conferences.
- Industry
- Finance & FinTech
- Open jobs
- 769 open jobs
- Total funding
- Approximately US$8.7 billion in disclosed funding, excluding secondary share sales
- Notable investors
- Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Thrive Capital
Tech stack
Ruby
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Java
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Scala
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TypeScript
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MongoDB
Document database
Apache Flink
Stream processing
PyTorch
Machine learning
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Cloud infrastructure
Key people
6 peoplePatrick CollisonCo-founderView bioHide bio
Patrick cofounded Stripe in 2010 with his brother John to make it easier for developers to accept payments online. He serves as CEO. He studied at MIT and previously cofounded Auctomatic, which built software for eBay sellers.
John CollisonCo-founderView bioHide bio
John was studying physics at Harvard when he and his brother Patrick started Stripe to simplify online payments. He serves as president. Before Stripe, he cofounded Auctomatic, which Live Current Media acquired in 2008.
Will GaybrickPresident, Technology and BusinessView bioHide bio
Gaybrick oversees product engineering, infrastructure and security at Stripe. He previously served as Stripe’s CFO and chief product officer. Before joining, he led Thrive Capital’s investment in Stripe.
Steffan TomlinsonChief Financial OfficerView bioHide bio
Tomlinson leads Stripe’s finance organization. He joined from Confluent, where he was CFO, and previously held finance leadership roles at Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks.
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Eileen O’MaraVice ChairView bioHide bio
O’Mara represents Stripe with customers, partners and policymakers. As chief revenue officer, she helped build its global revenue organization. She previously held leadership roles at Salesforce and Oracle.
Tyler BrysonChief Revenue OfficerView bioHide bio
Bryson leads Stripe’s revenue organization. He joined in 2025 to lead revenue in the Americas and the Global Solutions team, after more than two decades in leadership roles at Microsoft.
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