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Lead Solutions Engineer
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- Remote from
- USA
- Salary
- USD 190k–220k / yr
- Department
- Technical Support
- Employment
- Full Time
- Experience
- Senior
- Published
- Apply before
- 28 Oct 2026
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- 25
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- 1
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The role, at a glance.
Imprint is hiring a senior individual-contributor Lead Solutions Engineer to own technical relationships with enterprise payment-program partners. The role spans pre-sales discovery, solution architecture, post-sales integration delivery, launch troubleshooting, and long-term technical partnership. It requires strong knowledge of REST APIs, web and mobile SDKs, payments networks, PSPs, and card-program architecture. The hire will also influence product priorities and create repeatable tooling, documentation, and automation for scalable partner delivery. This is a high-impact fintech implementation role operating across Sales, Account Management, Product, Engineering, and external enterprise teams.
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Sample interview questions
I would begin by documenting the partner's business goals, customer journey, existing systems, compliance constraints, and launch timeline. I would map those needs to platform capabilities, identify gaps and dependencies early, and produce a solution design with clear ownership, risks, and integration milestones.
I would first establish the impact, reproduce the issue where possible, and use logs, API traces, and payload comparisons to isolate the failure point. I would coordinate the appropriate internal and partner technical owners, communicate status and mitigations clearly, and document the root cause and preventive actions after resolution.
Key considerations include payment-network flows, authorization and settlement behavior, issuer and processor responsibilities, tokenization, dispute and fraud workflows, KYC and identity requirements, data-sharing boundaries, and the customer servicing experience. The architecture must also support reliable reporting, compliance controls, and a scalable launch model.
I assess the customer and commercial value, technical effort, operational risk, and whether the need is broadly reusable. I advocate for configurable and repeatable solutions where possible, escalate material tradeoffs with a clear recommendation, and set transparent expectations with the partner when a bespoke request is not aligned with platform strategy.
A strong opportunity is creating reusable integration checklists, API validation tools, sandbox test suites, and launch-readiness dashboards. These reduce manual coordination, catch configuration errors earlier, provide consistent evidence of readiness, and allow implementation teams to focus on high-value partner-specific decisions.
About this role.
Who We Are
Imprint helps the world’s best brands grow the lifetime value of their customers. We started with co-branded credit cards and rebuilt them to be smarter, more rewarding, and brand-first. We partner with companies like Crate & Barrel, Rakuten, Booking.com, H-E-B, Fetch, and Shell to launch modern credit programs that deepen loyalty, unlock savings, and drive growth. But the card is just the beginning. We combine advanced payments infrastructure, intelligent underwriting, and deep customer data to create delightful and personalized experiences for members as well as efficient and profitable relationships for our brand partners. Our robust technology and world-class operations allow us and our brand partners to offer powerful financial products without becoming a bank.
In the U.S., co-branded cards alone account for over $300 billion in annual spend, and most still run on decades-old legacy bank systems. Imprint is the modern alternative: flexible, embeddable, and built for how people actually pay today. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Ribbit, and Khosla Ventures, we’re building a world-class team to redefine how people pay and how brands grow. If you want to move fast, solve hard problems, and own real outcomes, we want to meet you.
As Lead Solutions Engineer, you will own the technical relationship with Imprint’s enterprise partners, ensuring seamless integration, launch, and enhancements of payment solutions. This is a mission-critical role that sits at the intersection of major enterprise partner delivery and internal product strategy, requiring both deep technical expertise and strong business judgment.
You will act as the strategic technical partner to large enterprise partners: managing complex partner solutions that are delivered over many months, translating partner requirements into actionable solutions, driving repeatable launch processes, and ensuring Imprint’s platform meets partner needs while staying true to Imprint’s vision to be the best way to pay.
This role blends hands-on technical execution with systems-building, requiring someone who can bring order to ambiguity and scale partner success as Imprint grows.
What Success Looks Like in the First 90 Days
You can independently run technical discovery, solution design, and implementation for enterprise partner opportunities.
At least one partner implementation is launched through your technical leadership.
Clear opportunities to automate partner delivery are identified, prioritized, and at least one automation improvement is shipped or in-flight.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with sales, account management, and product teams to ensure major enterprise partner success from pre-sales through long-term partnership
Drive pre-sales technical discovery and solutioning:
Understand partner needs and constraints.
Map Imprint capabilities to partner requirements.
Serve as payments and card program expert to architect a best-in-class card program.
Provide technical guidance, architecture input, and implementation approach.
Own post-sales technical implementation and partner delivery:
Lead integration planning and execution.
Troubleshoot technical issues and unblock launches.
Build strong relationships with partner technical teams.
Drive proactive communication with partners to surface opportunities and mitigate risks.
Partner closely with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap:
Help define new products and improvements that solve real partner and consumer problems.
Ensure new partner and consumer-facing product features are aligned with partner expectations
Automate and standardize partner delivery:
Improve tooling, documentation, and repeatable integration patterns.
Contribute to operational stability at launch time by implementing flexible but repeatable frameworks.
Improve technical documentation and partner-facing implementation guides.
Qualifications
Required
Experience in solutions engineering, implementation engineering, sales engineering, or similar technical client-facing roles
Strong technical background in REST APIs, front-end technologies, and mobile/web SDKs
Payments experience is essential: deep understanding of payment networks, PSPs, and payment product architecture
General understanding of how products are built, including front-end and back-end development concepts
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and bring structure to unstructured problems
Extremely detail-oriented with a track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects to successful completion
Collaborative team player with strong cross-functional partnership skills
Excellent judgment in balancing partner needs with internal priorities and knowing when to escalate strategic decisions
Motivated by building a successful company and willing to operate as a senior individual contributor
Proven track record of improving processes through tooling and automation.
Nice to Have
Experience with B2B2C partner implementations.
Familiarity with data flows, identity/KYC concepts, or risk/compliance considerations in financial products.
Familiarity with AI/LLM tools and automation in technical workflows
Track record of working effectively in small, high-performing teams
Perks & Benefits
Competitive compensation and equity packages
Leading configured work computers of your choice
Flexible paid time off
Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA
20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units, stemming from our philosophy that we should invest in resources for our team that foster innovation, optimization, and productivity
Imprint is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Imprint is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Imprint welcomes talented individuals from all backgrounds who want to build the future of payments and rewards. If you are passionate about FinTech and eager to grow, let’s move the world forward, together.
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