Solutions Architect

Inter Payments is a San Francisco, CA-based, Fin Tech SaaS company sitting at the exciting intersection of payments and data intelligence. Our Mission is to empower merchants and the software vendors they use to lower payment processing costs. We create innovative data services that Fortune 1000 companies rely upon to lower fees by putting payments in competition on every swipe.

We empower dedicated team-first individuals who are driven to solve problems to foster innovation, perform at their highest potential, and make a meaningful impact - while creating meaningful relationships along the way.

Inter Payments Inc. is a San Francisco, CA-based SaaS company sitting at the exciting intersection of payments and data intelligence. Our mission is to empower merchants and the software vendors they use to manage their cost of accepting payments. We create innovative data services that Fortune 1000 companies rely upon to lower fees by putting payments in competition on every swipe.

We empower dedicated team-first individuals who are driven to solve problems to foster innovation, perform at their highest potential, and make a meaningful impact – while creating meaningful relationships along the way.

This position will report to the Manager of Solutions Architecture. It will be home office based and may require up to 5% travel (primarily for Inter Payments and Partner events).

This role is both customer-facing and deeply technical in equal measure. You’ll win in two very different rooms with both new prospects and existing customers. Commercially, you’ll articulate our value and the level of effort required to achieve it to stakeholders whose incentives and technical acumen vary widely. This includes executive sponsors and procurement to finance and operations leaders. Technically, you carry enough depth to lower the barriers to trust with high-acumen engineering, developer, and IT teams who won’t accept a recommendation on faith.

You will help both new and existing customers understand the value of our services, how they implement them, and the level of effort to do so in a way that builds and maintains trust. You will creatively craft and present the architecture of how Inter Payments fits inside a customer’s payment stack. You’ll also make the commercial case, alongside our sales and partnership teams, for the architecture, our value, and the effort to realize our value.

You determine where Inter Payments lives in a customer’s payment flow. Enterprise customers arrive with a payment stack already in motion, and surcharging reaches further into it than they expect. Your job is to understand that stack in detail, decide precisely where our solutions must fit, and specify the changes required to put it there compliantly. To do this, you’ll trace transaction flows, design integration patterns, produce payment workflow diagrams and written specifications, review designs, and walk customer development teams through your recommendations.

You work the technical side of an engagement from the first architecture conversation through a signed design, hand a documented design to Implementations, and stay accountable through go-live.

You go deep, not just wide; you investigate, then commit. From a technical perspective, a high-level understanding of a payment flow is where you start, not where you stop. You want to know what the system is actually doing – which call fires first, what the payload contains, where the amount is mutated, when the token is created, and what happens on a partial capture or a refund.

From a commercial perspective, you’ll understand the needs, incentives, and constraints of the customer’s commercial and technical teams to arrive at the best answer to achieve the…