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title: 'Solutions Architect at Rutter'
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# Solutions Architect at Rutter

- **Company:** Rutter
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rutter/50a12b5c-cb8d-46ae-84b1-e7e3f8b19029

## Job description

## About Rutter

Rutter is the leading B2B2B unified API company that helps fintechs and banks integrate with SMB financial data. Our platform powers the next generation of embedded finance by connecting to accounting, commerce, banking, and payments systems so fintechs can build products that save SMBs time and money. We are backed by a16z, and our customers include industry leaders such as PayPal, Capital One, Mercury, Parafin, Airwallex, and Payoneer. We also have a growing partner ecosystem that includes Intuit, Sage, Walmart, Taktile, Oscilar, and many others. Our infrastructure supports some of the most innovative fintech and banking products in the market today and is used by millions of SMBs. We are hiring a Solutions Architect to join our growing Solutions team to help customers unlock the full potential of Rutter’s platform. This is a highly collaborative, customer-facing role that blends technical depth, product expertise, and strategic thinking. You’ll work directly with customers across the full lifecycle, from early solution design to implementation, onboarding, and post-launch success. As one of the early members of our Solutions team, you’ll play a key role in guiding our customers to deliver scalable integrations and power the next generation of fintech products.

## What You’ll Do

- Lead customer implementations Lead solution design and technical implementation for customer integrations across accounting, commerce, and banking platforms.
- Voice of the customer Support the product team by influencing feature requests and product roadmap based on what customers are looking for.
- Act as a trusted advisor to customers Guide customers on best practices for API usage, data mapping, and integration architecture to ensure scalable, reliable implementations.
- Influence product and roadmap Collaborate with engineering and product to identify product gaps, propose enhancements, and shape new capabilities based on customer needs.
- AI Orchestration Own the full customer journey, and further build out an agentified process to automate customer onboarding and to pursue expansion opportunities.
- Customer Enablement Develop sample apps, implementation guides, internal documentation, and demo flows that accelerate customer success and internal efficiency.

## What We’re Looking For

- 3+ years in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Implementation Engineer, Forward-Deployed Engineer or similar, ideally at a SaaS or API-driven company. Preferably, experience working with fintech companies in the past.
- Strong technical proficiency with REST APIs, integration design, and developer workflows
- Excellent communication skills. You are able to lead technical discussions with engineering teams and explain complex topics clearly to business stakeholders.
- Builder mindset. You enjoy creating demos, writing documentation, and solving problems end to end.
- Experience being in a highly collaborative and adaptable fast-paced startup environment
- Bonus: Experience working with Accounting, Payments, or Commerce systems in the past
- Must be based in NYC and able to work a hybrid role at our Flatiron, Manhattan office
- This role will be primarily Post-Sales.

## Compensation

On-target earnings of $150,000–$165,000, plus equity

## Benefits

- 401(k)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (premiums covered by Rutter for individual plans)
- Unlimited PTO
- Laptop and charger provided
- Annual wellness stipend

## About Rutter

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rutter provides a unified API infrastructure that enables B2B fintech companies to read, write, and sync data across 60+ accounting, commerce, payments, and ads platforms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup, Y Combinator S2019)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Eric Yu (CEO) and Peter Zhou (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Technology (Fintech) Infrastructure / API
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily tech-forward banks, fintechs, and financial product builders (e.g., Mercury, Ramp, Airwallex, Payoneer).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To help companies build robust financial operating systems by providing a unified API that seamlessly integrates with business financial platforms.

## Products & Services
- **Unified API**: The core product. A single API that connects to 60+ accounting (QuickBooks, NetSuite, Xero), commerce (Shopify, Stripe, Magento), payments, and ads platforms. It allows reading, updating, writing, and removing data with a single, consistent schema.
- **Rutter Link**: A white-labeled, embeddable authentication flow for end-users to connect their financial accounts. It handles permissions, data governance, and consent monitoring.
- **AI Agents for Supplier Enablement**: A feature designed to help customers increase commercial card spend by automating the identification, scoring, and conversion of vendor payments to card.
- **Monitoring & Observability**: A dashboard providing full visibility into the integration lifecycle, including authentication, data access, webhooks, and data syncs for debugging and performance monitoring.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $2.1M (LinkedIn estimate). Total disclosed funding: $1.5M (seed round from 2021).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (S2019 batch). Key customers include Mercury, Ramp, Airwallex, NorthOne, Payoneer, Parafin, Wayflyer, and Orb.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount has grown 48.3% YoY (to ~30 employees). Trusted by 100+ fintechs and banks. Expanding its product to include AI-powered workflows for supplier enablement.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Domain Expertise**: The company employs accounting experts and engineers from companies like DoorDash, Addepar, and Twilio, giving them a nuanced understanding of complex financial workflows that generalist API providers lack.
- **Flexibility & Depth**: Rutter’s API provides the same granularity as building a direct integration, but with significantly less engineering cost and time (claims a 70% reduction in build time).
- **Trusted by Leaders**: They are the chosen integration partner for top-tier fintech companies like Ramp and Mercury, which serves as a strong social proof.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Workflows**: Actively developing AI agents to automate supplier enablement and increase commercial card spend for their customers.
- **Expanding Integration Coverage**: Continuously adding support for more platforms (currently 60+) to make their API the most comprehensive for business financial data.
- **Product Depth**: Moving beyond basic data reads to support complex write and update operations, enabling end-to-end workflows for lending, expense management, AP/AR automation, and more.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as collaborative, low-ego, and curious. The team is highly technical, with a focus on deep domain expertise.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: While some roles are listed as "On-site" in New York City, the company also operates in 5 countries including Brazil, suggesting a flexible or distributed team structure.
- **Notable Perks**:
    - **Unlimited PTO** with 12 company holidays and 4 "Rutter Refresh Days."
    - **Health Insurance**: Medical (Aetna/Kaiser), Dental, Vision, and Life.
    - **Mental Health & Wellness Stipend**: Up to $1,000/year for therapy, gym, meditation, etc.
    - **Home Office Reimbursement**: Up to $1,000 for office setup.
    - **NYC Office Perks**: Company-covered lunch daily and Thursday night team gatherings.

## Sources
1. [rutter.com](https://www.rutter.com/)
2. [rutter.com/about](https://www.rutter.com/about)
3. [rutter.com/careers](https://rutter.com/careers?ashby_jid=5a9abdcd-73d3-49c8-a821-1c6aaafa3195)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/rutter](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rutter)
5. [linkedin.com/company/rutterapi](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rutterapi)

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