Staff Software Engineer, Dashboard Product
Remote • Seattle
Posted 9h ago
About the job
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, aiming to increase the GDP of the internet. The Dashboard Product team focuses on perfecting Stripe's main merchant interface, the Dashboard, by infusing meticulous attention to detail and craft. This team owns critical first-touch surfaces like the homepage, setting a benchmark for intuitive and reliable software. They also distill front-line insights into shared components and paradigms to empower internal product teams. The team is mentorship-forward, with staff engineers raising the quality bar alongside early-career engineers, and is actively exploring how AI agents can unlock new creative possibilities for merchant interaction.
Responsibilities
- Own frontend quality, consistency, and visual craft of high-traffic Dashboard pages, focusing on core logged-in surfaces.
- Identify and execute opportunities to improve consistency, performance, and polish across the Dashboard.
- Partner with Design and Product, acting as the technical voice on frontend feasibility, quality standards, and implementation.
- Contribute to and advocate for the Stripe design system, ensuring components and patterns work well across product surfaces.
- Establish frontend quality standards for the team, including patterns, code review practices, and implementation guidance.
- Prototype and explore AI-powered experiences to change how merchants discover and interact with Stripe products.
- Collaborate with backend engineers on integration points while maintaining a core focus on frontend craft.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building and shipping complex, user-facing web applications at large scale.
- Deep expertise in modern frontend development with strong opinions on UI quality and high visual precision.
- Track record of driving measurable improvements to UI consistency and polish across large, distributed products.
- Experience working closely with Design teams and translating design intent into high-quality production implementation.
- Demonstrated ability to work across a large codebase and bring coherence to high-traffic product surfaces.
- Familiarity with frontend performance engineering, including profiling, instrumentation, and optimization.
- Interest in AI-driven user experiences, with experience prototyping or shipping AI-powered features.
- Experience mentoring early-career engineers and contributing to team-wide quality standards.
- Comfort working across the full stack when needed, with a preference for frontend craft.
- Advanced proficiency with React, emphasizing interactions, animation, performance, and refinement.
- Experience with A/B testing, synthetic monitoring, or accessibility testing.