Stripe Technical Solutions Engineer - Remote US — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
While this role is listed as remote, it carries a hard timezone restriction: Mountain or Pacific time zones (MT/PT) only. This is a significant constraint for digital nomads. It effectively means you must work from UTC-7 to UTC-8 (or UTC-6 to UTC-7 during daylight saving). This rules out most of Asia, Africa, and Europe as viable full-time base locations.
Practical nomad windows that could work:
- Western Canada & Mexico (CDMX, Oaxaca, Guadalajara): Fully within the allowed timezone band — ideal for US-adjacent nomads.
- Colombia (Medellín, Bogotá): UTC-5, only 2-3 hours ahead of PT — feasible with a slightly early start, though border cases may require negotiation.
- Hawaii: UTC-10, technically behind PT — overlaps well but may be too early for East Coast collaborators.
European bases like Lisbon (UTC+1), Bangkok (UTC+7), or Bali (UTC+8) are not viable for this role due to timezone conflicts with required working hours. Occasional weekend coverage is also expected, which limits travel flexibility further.
The role requires a US work authorization (remote-US), so digital nomad visa options in other countries would not resolve the employment eligibility requirement. This is best suited for US-authorized workers traveling within the Americas.
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