Bread is a cutting-edge technology company that transforms the way the world shops online. We build tools, technologies, and APIs that allow e-commerce merchants to integrate installment loan financing and other alternative payment products throughout the customers’ shopping journey. Bread was founded in 2014 by financial technology veterans and has experienced explosive growth to date. Recently acquired by Alliance Data Systems, Bread provides candidates the highly unique experience of being part of a rapidly growing fintech with the DNA and culture of a startup, while also having the considerable resources of a highly scaled, leading financial institution. This powerful combination will enable Bread to accelerate its growth to become an even greater force in the marketplace as well as provide candidates a completely unique experience.

In the Solutions Engineer role, your responsibilities will ensure the successful acquisition of new prospective Bread merchants by guiding them through a best-in-class payment solution. This role involves taking initiative throughout the sales cycle and providing support in terms of demos, RFPs, POCs, and other product expertise as needed. Solution Engineers are the forefront E2E experts in the bread business and pride themselves on their deep understanding of the Bread business and their assigned problem space.

Your role at Bread

• You are an expert on Bread’s platform capabilities, APIs, and the integration pathways with Bread as well as on top Technology Platforms (Commerce, CRM, & ERP) 
• Lead Pre-sales discussions with prospective Merchants, selling them on the technical aspects of Bread’s payment solution
• Work with Enterprise Merchants to map Bread’s payment solution to their business process, ensuring a best in class customer journey and capability set
• Document the needs of the merchant into a solution design and lead the realization effort alongside Success & Integrations

What we are looking for

• 3+ years of pre-sales engineering, solution selling, technical consulting or related experience
• 2+ years of experience within the retail vertical, payments platforms, or commerce eco-systems
• Highly skilled at socializing business opportunity at all levels of the organization through both written presentation and compelling storytelling
• Strong understanding of API’s, and ability to read and internalize technical documentation
• Be comfortable talking about technical concepts and explaining how they work, both from a product feature and API architecture perspective to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Solid verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills

Nice to have

• Familiarity with eCommerce platforms (e.g. Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Magento, WooCommerce, Shopify, BigCommerce, etc.)

• Prior programming experience, and familiarity with web debugging tools (e.g. Chrome Dev Tools)
• Experience writing content and making contributions to internal and external technical documentation