Benchstack Ai
Solutions Engineer - Fintech
Requirements
Candidates need 4-8 years of experience as a Solutions Engineer at a B2B SaaS/API company with deep hands-on REST API and architecture expertise. Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and a willingness to travel approximately 40% is required.
Job Description
A fast-growing API-first tax automation platform, trusted by major global platforms including household names in travel, ride-sharing, and streaming. Just closed a $110M Series C on top of $85M raised previously. Now hiring across the Solutions Engineering team.
What you'll do:
- Partner with Sales on technical discovery, scoping, and solution design for enterprise prospects
- Lead product demos and technical presentations
- Drive API integration and gap-analysis conversations with customer engineering teams
- Become an expert across the company's core API suite
- Own the handoff from pre-sales to implementation
What you'll need:
- 4-8 years as a Solutions Engineer or Pre-Sales Engineer at a B2B SaaS/API company
- Deep hands-on API integration experience — REST APIs, integration architecture, comfortable reading and writing code
- Ability to translate technical concepts into business value for non-technical stakeholders
- Willingness to travel ~40% (primarily Europe)
Nice to have:
- Experience at a Series B-D high-growth startup
- Background in fintech, tax tech, or compliance software
- Fluent in French or German
Visa sponsorship considered for exceptional candidates.
Skills
About Benchstack Ai
Benchstack Ai is a boutique search partner helping AI and deep tech startups in the US and UK hire the people who actually build. From founding engineers to staff-level builders, we work with founders and venture-backed teams from Seed to Series C to scale fast, without compromising on culture or quality. We specialise in: Executive Search for technical and commercial leadership Embedded & Fractional Talent support for high-growth teams Targeted sourcing of engineers, data scientists, ML/AI specialists, and builders with true 0-to-1 experience Our difference is simple: Speed without shortcuts Cultural fit alongside technical rigour Founder-first empathy backed by years of in-house recruiting in fintech, SaaS, energy, and blockchain Whether you’re hiring your first founding engineer, scaling your sales team, or planning workforce growth across a portfolio, Benchstack Ai gives you the edge in finding talent who will actually ship, scale, and stick.