Backend Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering

Who we are

About Stripe

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. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team exists to solve the hardest problems our most complex enterprise users face, and to turn those solutions into platform capabilities that scale to everyone. We work across Revenue Suite, Payments, and adjacent products. This is not a support function. It is an engineering team that sits at the boundary between Stripe's platform and the real-world complexity of how large enterprises actually use it.

The traditional FDE playbook, one engineer per user who manually rebuilds context every rotation, is how every infrastructure company has done it for a decade. It does not scale. We are building something different: an agent-augmented model where AI handles the context-heavy, structured work (integration mapping, state reconciliation, infrastructure shadow testing, diagnostics) and human FDEs focus on the parts that require engineering judgment, product thinking, and direct user relationships. The goal is to build engineering muscle that lets us serve every strategic user through the platform, not just the handful we can staff individually.

We've proven the approach with some of the world's most demanding enterprise users, delivering measurable auth rate improvements, unblocking critical platform migrations, closing multi-product integration gaps, and driving real revenue. Now we're scaling the model. If you want to solve hard user problems, build reusable platform solutions, and help shape how forward deployed engineering works as a discipline, this is the team.

What you'll do

As an Engineer on the RFA Forward Deployed Engineering team, you will

• Work alongside AI agents to serve users at scale. This is central to how our team operates. AI agents maintain real-time integration maps, run shadow tests against user setups, and perform automated state reconciliation between Stripe and user systems. Your job is the work that requires an engineer—making judgment calls on ambiguous problems, building relationships with user engineering teams, making product decisions, and designing solutions. You will also help shape the tooling itself, identifying what should be automated and what needs to stay human.