Staff Software Engineer, Stripe Dashboard
Remote • Seattle
Posted 1d ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Engineer
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 works on critical surfaces like the homepage, setting benchmarks for intuitive and reliable software, and distills insights into shared components for the entire organization. They are a mentorship-forward team where staff engineers collaborate with early-career engineers to elevate quality and are actively exploring how AI agents can unlock new creative possibilities for merchant interactions.
Responsibilities
- Own frontend quality, consistency, and visual craft of the Stripe Dashboard's highest-traffic 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 teams, providing technical expertise on frontend feasibility, quality standards, and implementation.
- Contribute to and advocate for the Stripe design system, ensuring components and patterns function well across the Dashboard and other product surfaces.
- Establish frontend quality standards for the team, including patterns, code review practices, and implementation guidance for junior engineers.
- 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.
- Passion for crafting beautiful web experiences, showcased through a design portfolio and frontend code.
- 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.