Stripe TSE Role: Grow as a Developer Advocate in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This is a high-impact hybrid role sitting at the intersection of software engineering, developer advocacy, and technical support — a growing and increasingly valued career track in fintech and developer-tooling companies. At Stripe, one of the most prestigious engineering brands in the world, the TSE title carries real weight.
Compensation context: Stripe TSE roles at the senior level (4+ years required here) typically range from $150,000–$220,000 total compensation in US markets, with meaningful equity components. No salary is listed in this posting, which is a mild yellow flag — candidates should probe this early in the process.
Skills you'll develop:
- Deep, polyglot programming fluency across 10+ languages — a rare and marketable skill.
- API design thinking and developer experience (DX) — highly demanded at any product-led company.
- LLM/RAG tooling development (the Copilot tool mention signals real AI engineering exposure).
- Cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering teams — excellent path to PM or Staff Engineer roles.
Green flags: Stripe's engineering culture is widely respected; TSE alumni are highly sought after. The explicit mentorship structure early on and autonomous later-stage work signals a healthy growth environment. Family-friendly flexibility is a genuine cultural commitment at Stripe.
Potential red flag: Occasional weekend on-call coverage may indicate higher operational load than typical engineering roles. Candidates should clarify the frequency and on-call rotation structure.
Headquarters: Seattle, WA, Remote-US
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
Stripe is beloved by developers for the simplicity of our APIs, the thoroughness of our documentation, and our focus on developer experience. The Technical Solutions Engineering (TSE) team is the glue that supports our developer-users and champions developer experience as being central to the overall experience of our users. TSE interacts directly with developer-users more than any other team at Stripe, so your role will have a significant impact on what Stripe is known for and values most. When we do our job well, developers all over the world are able to smoothly launch and grow their businesses on Stripe, whether they're integrating payments for the first time or building complex financial systems.
What You'll Do
TSEs understand the fundamentals of programming incredibly well and eagerly jump in and familiarize themselves with others' code. You will do a wide variety of things, including explaining technical concepts about Stripe's products, building and debugging integrations with developers, and producing/improving guides that help our users solve particular problems to be successful with Stripe. You will interact with developers of all skill levels through a variety of mediums, enabling them to be successful when using Stripe.
Early on, current team members will devote a large amount of time to teaching you and helping you reach a level of comfort and expertise with Stripe, its services, and how we interact with users. Later, we'd love for you to take on this role with others on the team and Stripes broadly, as teaching is a great way to learn and reinforce what you know.
If you're someone who enjoys working with all kinds of code, is a fast researcher, a strong writer, and enthusiastic about helping others build mission-critical products with Stripe, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Communicate with external developers and aid them in building applications against Stripe's infrastructure in multiple programming languages (including Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, NodeJS, .NET, ReactJS, React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, and Java for Android).
- Unblock external developers with their thorniest integration challenges through a variety of support channels including email, ticketing software, internal issue trackers, community platforms (like StackOverflow), and real-time chat software (like Slack and Discord).
- Develop and maintain internal and external documentation, examples, integration demos, and code snippets that demonstrate usage patterns of the Stripe infrastructure.
- Identify points of friction developers encounter and collaborate with engineering teams to improve Stripe products. Participate in extended engineering teams' regular planning sessions, design reviews, and development meetings.
- Develop and maintain a suite of internal support tooling for TSE and Stripe Support more broadly — e.g., a retrieval-augmented generation LLM-based Copilot tool or the Invoice Explainer Admin tool.
- Act as a developer advocate and educational resource internally by regularly assembling training for non-developers and responding in real-time to product integration questions.
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.
This role is remote but requires candidates to be located in the Mountain or Pacific time zones.
Minimum Requirements
- At least 4 years of full-stack software development experience, with a proven track record of building web or mobile applications that deliver high-quality user experiences.
- Direct experience explaining technical concepts, and would be comfortable explaining how Stripe works to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Understands how to write good, clean code in multiple programming languages, as well as how to read code that might not be quite as well written.
- Ability to help users during working hours in the region you are in. This may occasionally include providing weekend coverage for monitoring/supporting critical infrastructure. The team is largely remote, and we are very supportive of working arrangements that allow for family care and other needs to be met.
Preferred Qualifications
- Enjoys writing in a clear and quick manner.
- General software engineering skills are important, as new languages and frameworks can be learned if you understand the concepts.
- Experience teaching or coaching developers.
- Comfort working with a great deal of autonomy and limited supervision.
- Degree in Computer Science, Software/Computer Engineering, or a related analytical field of study.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/stripe-technical-solutions-engineer
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