Staff Software Engineer, Dashboard

🏢 About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

🎯 The Role

As a Staff Frontend Engineer on the Dashboard Product team, you’ll collaborate with skilled designers and engineers to drive UX excellence in the Stripe Dashboard. You’ll craft experiences that simplify complex tasks for merchants, ensuring high performance, seamless information architecture, and intuitive discoverability. You’ll also mentor early-career engineers and explore how AI agents can unlock new creative possibilities.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Core: React, TypeScript
• Design Systems: Stripe design system
• Performance: Frontend performance engineering, profiling, instrumentation
• Tools: A/B testing, synthetic monitoring, accessibility testing

💼 What You'll Do

• Own the frontend quality, consistency, and visual craft of the Stripe Dashboard's highest-traffic pages
• Identify and execute opportunities to improve consistency, performance, and polish across the Dashboard
• Partner closely with Design and Product to serve as the technical voice on frontend feasibility and quality standards
• Contribute to and advocate for the Stripe design system
• Establish frontend quality standards for the team, including patterns and code review practices
• Prototype and explore AI-powered experiences for merchants
• Collaborate with backend engineers on integration points while keeping frontend craft as core focus

✅ What You'll Need

• 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
• Track record of driving measurable improvements to UI consistency and polish across large products
• Experience working closely with Design teams and translating design intent into production implementation
• Demonstrated ability to work across a large codebase and bring coherence to high-traffic surfaces

🌟 Nice to Have

• Passion for crafting beautiful experiences on the web, demonstrated 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 clear preference and passion for frontend craft
• Advanced proficiency with React, with an emphasis on interactions, animation, performance, and refinement
• Experience with A/B testing, synthetic monitoring, or accessibility testing