Full-Time
Solutions Architect
Enterprise Platforms
Posted on 1/5/2026
Stripe
10,001+ employees
Online payment processing APIs for businesses
No salary listed
San Francisco, CA, USA + 1 more
More locations: New York, NY, USA
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- 8+ years of experience in a similar customer-facing engineering role such as solution consultant, solutions architect, or sales engineer, for a global software enterprise.
- Executive engagement skills and presence, with an ability to establish strong relationships with key decision makers and build credibility at all levels.
- Effective group-facilitation skills and confidence in proposing and leading customer meetings to gain strategic footing and pursue opportunities.
- Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle and API architecture.
- Outstanding spoken and written communication skills, presentation skills, and confidence in explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of Connect, Stripe's solution for enabling platform payments, exploring its various features, and integration methodologies.
- Gather an in-depth understanding of Stripe's Payments and Billing systems and their applicability across diverse business models to beneficially cater to individual clients' and their customers' needs.
- Ability to understand how a wide variety of applications such as ERP, CRM, Billing, Tax and legacy systems interact with each other in a platform technology stack/ecosystem.
- Strong organizational and time management skills and the ability to juggle competing priorities while working with multiple strategic opportunities and customers.
- Be a key member of the Platform account team with deep involvement in defining the customer strategy; Identify and close new complex opportunities, and accelerate solution adoption.
- Drive thought leadership and be a trusted advisor for key business and technical stakeholders including CIO, CTO, COO, CRO, CDO, Head of Product Engineering, and Head of Payments.
- Work to deeply understand the customer’s business objectives, and then design and apply Stripe’s solutions to their challenges. Develop and articulate the end to end customer transformation journey and create future roadmaps and architectures with deep 3rd party integrations in play.
- Conduct business analysis and background research on customers, industries, and competitors.
- Lead strategy engagements with users to align to business priorities, design solutions and secure the technical win by performing in-depth customer discovery, evangelizing the proposed solutions through executive briefings, readouts, presentations and solution demos.
- Expand Stripe’s footprint within existing accounts to new global markets and business units by introducing new capabilities and local payment methods.
- Act as the “Voice of the Customer” to bring insights, trends and opportunities to the leadership, product and engineering teams from the forefront and prioritized for delivery.
- Participate in sales forecasting, Quarterly Business Reviews and account/territory planning to strategically and tactically align for success.
- Act as a crucial part of the sales team, providing technical insight and solutions to prospective and existing platform users. Guide and provide technical expertise on Stripe and its benefits for both platforms and their customers.
- Showcase the capability of Stripe's platform in solving business problems, highlighting features, benefits, and potential customizations. This includes demonstrating how those benefits pass down to the customer's own user-base.
- Manage pre-sales projects, coordinating proof of concept development, and feasibility checks. Ensure all solutions proposed are viable, beneficial to our potential clients, and also accommodating to their customers.
- Experience as a customer facing, domain expert in the payments space, presenting, and architecting solutions for platform customers.
- Prior experience driving technical sales with top-tier enterprise scale platforms and supporting them and their customer’s unique requirements
- Experience with integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications.
- Experience in systems design, building and deploying complex applications.
- Experience in helping customers adopt and consume software in a cloud model.
- Passionately learning and actively seeks out knowledge
- Ability to work independently and confidently to develop a path forward with customers under ambiguous circumstances.
- Strategic and creative thinker who can proactively identify challenges and maintain a positive approach when facing difficult obstacles.
- Strong collaboration skills to work seamlessly with extended teams to support our users.
Stripe provides online payment processing through a suite of APIs that let apps accept and process payments securely over the internet for businesses of all sizes. Developers integrate these APIs into websites or apps; Stripe handles payment methods, authorization, settlement, and payouts to sellers. It differentiates itself with a broad set of connected products around payments, including Billing, Connect, Issuing, Radar, Capital, Atlas, Climate, and Identity, all designed to work together via a developer-friendly API platform for use cases such as subscriptions, marketplaces, and creator payouts. Its goal is to make online monetization simple and secure for internet businesses while earning revenue from transaction fees and related services.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Private
Total Funding
$11.3B
Headquarters
South San Francisco, California
Founded
2010
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Agentic commerce will drive majority of online transactions by 2027-2028.
- 288 new products launched May 2026 accelerate AI economy infrastructure adoption.
- Treasury platform consolidates payments, stablecoins, and global money management seamlessly.
What critics are saying
- AI agents demand sub-800ms checkout friction, disintermediating Stripe's platform.
- Hybrid pricing models erode Stripe's subscription revenue as AI firms iterate.
- Claude Opus 4.5 achieves 92% on Stripe API tasks, commoditizing developer tools.
What makes Stripe unique
- Stripe processes $1.9 trillion annually across 5 million businesses globally.
- Agentic Commerce Suite integrates with Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta platforms.
- Link Agent Wallet enables autonomous AI agents to transact without credential exposure.
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Benefits
Inclusive coverage - We provide a thoughtful and balanced set of benefits that allow Stripes to be their best selves and do great work. Whether that means offering comprehensive mental, physical, and medical health plans, supporting Stripes’ financial futures, providing fertility benefits and parental leave, or making sure Stripes have access to healthy food at the office, our robust programs put Stripes and their families first.
Growth by way of learning - We are voracious learners and teachers. Our Education team delivers an onboarding and product training curriculum for all new Stripes, and hosts expert-led courses on things like project management fundamentals and macroeconomics. Beyond the formal program, Stripes are constantly sharing knowledge with each other through conversation, documentation, reading groups, and informal talks.
A principled approach to food - The food program holds a special place in Stripe’s history and future. These Stripes come to our kitchen from a breadth of backgrounds and experiences, and focus on one proposition—respect. This is apparent not only in the local ingredients they work with or in the gracious, teamwork-driven buffet lines, but also in their approach to growing a global team through sustainable food practices and minimal waste.
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↓ -1%What is Stripe and how to use it in FittestArena. May 03, 2026 If you're organizing a fitness competition and want to collect registration fees online, you've probably come across the name Stripe. But what exactly is Stripe, and how does it fit into FittestArena? This post breaks it all down. What is Stripe? Stripe is one of the world's leading online payment platforms. It lets businesses and individuals accept credit card payments, debit card payments, and other payment methods securely over the internet - without having to build complex payment infrastructure from scratch. Think of Stripe as the engine running quietly behind the scenes whenever you pay for something online. It handles the secure transfer of funds between your athlete's bank account and yours, while managing fraud protection, currency conversion, and compliance automatically. Some things that make Stripe stand out: * Security: Stripe is PCI DSS Level 1 certified, the highest level of payment security certification. * Global reach: Supports payments in 135+ currencies and dozens of payment methods. * Fast payouts: Funds are typically deposited into your bank account within 2 business days. * Trusted: Used by companies like Amazon, Shopify, and thousands of event organizers around the world. Why does FittestArena use Stripe? FittestArena is built for fitness competition organizers - from small gym throwdowns to large-scale multi-division events. When you're charging athletes a registration fee, you need a payment system that's: * Safe - so athletes trust entering their card details * Simple - so you don't need to be a developer to set it up * Reliable - so fees land in your account without issues Stripe checks all three boxes. FittestArena integrates directly with Stripe's Connect platform, which is specifically designed for marketplaces and platforms that facilitate payments between a business (FittestArena) and their users (you, the organizer). This means FittestArena never holds your money - funds go directly to your Stripe account. How fees work. When an athlete pays a registration fee through FittestArena: * Stripe charges a payment processing fee (typically ~2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, though this varies by country). * FittestArena charges a small platform fee (2%) on top of that. * The remaining amount is deposited directly into your Stripe account. FittestArena's fee calculator in the division setup screen gives you a real-time estimate of your payout for any price you set, so there are no surprises. If your event is free or you prefer to handle payments outside the platform entirely, you don't need Stripe at all - FittestArena works great without it. How to Connect your Stripe account. Getting Stripe set up in FittestArena takes about 5-10 minutes. Here's how: Step 1: Create a FittestArena account. Step 2: go to your Stripe settings. From your dashboard, navigate to your event overview and find the Stripe section. Click Connect with Stripe. Step 3: complete Stripe's onboarding. You'll be redirected to Stripe's onboarding flow. You'll need to provide: * Your name and email * Business or personal details (depending on your country) * Bank account information for payouts Stripe will verify your identity as part of their compliance process. This is standard and required by financial regulations. Step 4: you're live. Once your Stripe account is connected and verified, you can set paid registration fees on any division in your event. Athletes will be prompted to pay via an embedded Stripe checkout when they register. What athletes experience. When an athlete registers for a paid division: * They fill out the registration form on your event page. * They're redirected to a secure Stripe-hosted checkout. * They enter their card details and pay. * They receive a confirmation email and their spot is reserved. The whole process is smooth, mobile-friendly, and takes under a minute. No. FittestArena is flexible. If you're running a free event - like an in-house gym throwdown or a charity competition - you don't need Stripe at all. You can add athletes manually or let them self-register for free. Stripe is only required when you want to collect registration fees directly through the platform. Check out the full features overview to see everything FittestArena can do, with or without paid registrations. Getting started. Ready to run your next competition with online payments handled for you? * Create your free FittestArena account * Build your event and divisions * Connect Stripe and set your registration fees * Share your event link - athletes can register and pay on the spot That's it. No spreadsheets, no chasing payments, no headaches.
Stripe partners with Google to bring AI shopping into Gemini and AI Mode. 1 hour ago Stripe announced a partnership with Google that will allow businesses to sell products directly inside AI Mode and the Gemini app, expanding its push to become the payments layer for AI commerce. The integration is part of Stripe's broader Agentic Commerce Suite, which helps merchants make products available inside AI apps, and comes alongside the rollout of 288 new products and features. Quince, Fanatics, and JD Sports are expected to join the Google integration, following earlier Stripe partnerships with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta. Stripe said the suite is also coming to platforms including Wix, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce, allowing merchants to sell through AI apps without building separate integrations. The company also launched Link wallets for agents, letting users authorize AI agents to make payments on their behalf while keeping real payment details hidden through one time use cards and approval controls. Stripe introduced streaming payments for AI companies, combining Metronome tracking with stablecoin micropayments on its Tempo blockchain. The product is designed to let businesses charge for tokens in real time as AI usage occurs. Stripe also expanded Radar to protect AI companies from token theft and free trial abuse, saying one in six attempted sign ups across AI services using Stripe comes from bad actors. Disclosure: This article was edited by Estefano Gomez. For more information on how It'sTheCoin.com create and review content, see its Editorial Policy.
What is payment gateway? Stripe vs Razorpay comparison. payment gateway Stripe Razorpay payment processing API integration Axra Explore the essential role of payment gateways and compare Stripe vs Razorpay to find the best solution for your business's payment processing needs. In today's fast-paced digital world, understanding payment gateways is crucial for businesses looking to streamline their operations and enhance customer experiences. With the rising popularity of e-commerce, choosing the right payment gateway has become more pivotal than ever. This comprehensive guide will delve into the trending topic "what is payment gateway," and deliver a thorough comparison of two leading platforms: Stripe and Razorpay. Understanding payment gateways. What is a payment gateway? A payment gateway is a technology used by merchants to accept debit or credit card purchases from customers. It acts as an intermediary between the merchant's website and the financial institutions involved in the transaction. Payment gateways facilitate the transfer of information and ensure secure processing of payments. Why It Matters: Payment gateways are the backbone of e-commerce, enabling seamless transactions between businesses and customers across the globe. They provide security, speed, and reliability - key factors that influence customer trust and satisfaction. Key functions of a payment gateway. - Authorization: Confirming that the customer has enough funds to complete the purchase. - Settlement: Transferring funds from the customer's account to the merchant's account. - Security: Encrypting sensitive information to protect against fraud. Stripe vs Razorpay: A detailed comparison. Stripe: A developer's delight. Stripe is renowned for its robustness and developer-friendly features, making it a popular choice among tech-savvy businesses. - Ease of Integration: Stripe offers comprehensive API documentation, enabling seamless integration. - Global Reach: Operates in over 40 countries, supporting multiple currencies. const stripe = require('stripe')('your_secret_key'); stripe.customers.create({ email: '[email protected]', source: 'tok_mastercard' }).then(customer => stripe.charges.create({ amount: 2500, currency: 'usd', customer: customer.id}) ).then(charge => console.log(charge)); cURL Example for Stripe API Testing: curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/charges \ -u sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc: \ -d amount=2000 \ -d currency=usd \ -d source=tok_visa \ -d description="Charge for [email protected]" Razorpay: the Indian powerhouse. Razorpay is tailored for the Indian market, focusing on local payment methods and compliance. - Localized Payment Options: Supports UPI, wallets, and net banking, vital for Indian consumers. - Regulatory Compliance: Adheres to local regulations, offering businesses peace of mind. var options = {"key": "YOUR_KEY_ID", "amount": "50000", // 50000 paise = INR 500 "currency": "INR", "name": "Merchant Name", "handler": function (response){ alert(response.razorpay_payment_id);}, "prefill": {"name": "Customer Name", "email": "[email protected]", "contact": "9999999999"},}; var rzp1 = new Razorpay(options); rzp1.open; cURL Example for Razorpay API Testing: curl -u YOUR_KEY_ID:YOUR_SECRET_KEY \ -X POST https://api.razorpay.com/v1/orders \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"amount":50000,"currency":"INR","receipt":"rcptid_11"}' Axra: A modern alternative. While Stripe and Razorpay are exceptional platforms, Axra emerges as a modern, developer-friendly payment solution. Axra offers seamless integration, advanced security features, and a user-friendly interface, making it an ideal choice for businesses aiming for efficiency and reliability in their payment processing. Why consider Axra? - Developer-Friendly: Extensive API documentation and support. - Security: Implements cutting-edge security protocols. - Customization: Highly customizable to meet unique business needs. Conclusion: choosing the right payment gateway. Selecting the right payment gateway is a critical decision that can significantly impact your business's success. While Stripe and Razorpay each have their strengths, the choice depends on your specific business needs, market focus, and technical capabilities. Axra presents itself as a compelling alternative, offering a seamless blend of modern features and developer-friendly tools. For businesses looking to enhance their payment processes, it is essential to weigh the options carefully, considering factors such as integration ease, cost, and customer support. Actionable next steps. 1. Assess Your Needs: Identify your business requirements and market focus. 2. Evaluate Options: Compare features, pricing, and support of Stripe, Razorpay, and Axra. 3. Test Integrations: Use the provided code examples to test integration capabilities. 4. Make an Informed Decision: Choose a payment gateway that aligns with your business goals. Whether you are a small business just starting or an established company looking to optimize your payment systems, understanding the nuances of payment gateways and evaluating platforms like Stripe, Razorpay, and Axra will equip you with the knowledge to make the best choice for your business. Ready to transform your payment processing? Discover how Axra can help you build better payment experiences with its modern, developer-friendly payment platform.
Trent AI, a London-based AI security startup, has launched with $13 million in seed funding led by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital. Executives from Databricks and Stripe also participated. Founded by former Amazon Web Services engineers Eno Thereska, Neil Lawrence and Zhenwen Dai, Trent AI has developed a platform that uses AI agents to identify cybersecurity issues in AI agents and their generated code. The platform employs four groups of agents that find exploits, rank vulnerabilities by severity, generate remediation suggestions, and track security changes over time. The platform can simulate complex attack paths and provides tool-specific features for OpenClaw and Lovable. Trent AI claims its technology outperforms traditional cybersecurity products designed for conventional software. The company will use the funding to expand its customer base and engineering team.
Coinbase, Cloudflare and Stripe are backing x402, an open-source AI payment protocol now under Linux Foundation oversight, with around 20 participants including Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services and American Express. The protocol aims to enable autonomous software to execute high-frequency transactions using stablecoins, reviving the unused 402 Payment Required internet status code. Approximately 97 million transactions have been processed through Coinbase's Base blockchain, though daily activity remains modest. A competing initiative, the Machine Payments Protocol led by Stripe and Paradigm alongside Tempo blockchain, which raised $500 million, offers alternative mechanics for handling small-value transactions. Traditional payment networks including Visa, Mastercard and Deutsche Bank are participating alongside AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Regulatory developments such as the GENIUS Act requiring full dollar backing for stablecoins could support adoption.