Demo Engineer

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 Demo Engineering team is looking for product-focused engineers who are thoughtful about application design, high-polish user experiences, and great storytelling. We work to push Stripe’s mission of increasing the GDP of the internet by focusing our efforts on confidently showing users how our products work, not just telling them. 

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a Demo Engineer to build the on‑stage product demos that anchor our product announcement keynotes at Sessions, our annual user conference, and our global Stripe Tour event series. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, comms, and marketing. Partnering closely with product teams across the organization, you’ll own the keynote demos for our most exciting product launches, end to end—from concept and architecture to polish and rehearsals—so they’re technically flawless and narratively unforgettable.

Responsibilities

Demo ownership and storytelling

• Own the creation of all keynote demos (code and dashboard) across Stripe’s portfolio, from concept to live delivery, ensuring each demo maps to the keynote narrative and business goals.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to scope each demo: define technical requirements, dependencies, and success criteria; storyboard flows that showcase the key details of each product.
• Work closely with PMM, Comms, and Product to align each demo to key story beats in the keynote script.

Technical architecture and engineering

• Architect and build robust demo apps and environments (frontend, backend, services, data pipelines). 
• Sweat the details: configure environments, provision accounts, set realistic sample data, and wire integrations/webhooks.
• Build internal tooling and frameworks to accelerate and safeguard make demo production.

Collaboration and production support

• Collaborate with Design and Marketing to craft clear, legible on‑screen moments and create supporting assets (screens, snippets, animations, backup videos).
• Orchestrate demo rehearsals and run‑of‑show, and train our on-stage demoers.
• Travel to be onsite for flagship events (SF and NY) and key Tour events; support live ops during show days, including non‑standard hours.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years in software engineering (or equivalent). 
• Experience in demo engineering, solutions architecture, sales engineering, or developer relations is a plus. 
• Payments/fintech, AV/show production familiarity, and hardware/POS experience are nice to have.
• Flexibility. Willing to travel (20–30%) and support non‑standard hours around major events.

Preferred Qualifications

• An engineer–storyteller. You can turn complex capabilities into crisp, memorable moments.
• Full‑stack capable. Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node/React) and/or Python; comfortable with APIs, webhooks, OAuth, and data stores (e.g., Postgres/Redis); familiar with common deployment infrastructure, such as GCP and AWS.
• A builder. You have experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications, and can quickly build high quality demos that meet our standards of craft. 
• Reliability‑obsessed. You design for live demos with fallbacks and risk mitigation in mind.
• Structured and strategic. You create storyboards, technical specs, and checklists; you manage version control and environments with discipline; you bring order to fast, high‑stakes work.
• Calm under pressure. You’ve supported live demos or launches and keep your cool when something unexpected happens; you think in contingencies.
• Collaborative. You work seamlessly with Product, Eng, PMM, Design, Comms, and show production; strong stakeholder management and clear communication.
• Organized. You can juggle multiple demos, rehearsals, and timelines across global events; strong project management and documentation habits.