About the company
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. Its mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.
The Dashboard Product team builds user experiences for Stripe merchants and shared components and paradigms for internal product teams. The team focuses on detail, craft, and quality, and staff engineers mentor early-career engineers. The team is exploring how AI agents can create new ways for merchants to interact with their products.
Responsibilities
- Own frontend quality, consistency, and visual craft across the Dashboard's highest-traffic pages, particularly core logged-in surfaces.
- Identify and execute improvements to consistency, performance, and polish across the Dashboard.
- Partner with Design and Product on frontend feasibility, quality standards, and implementation approach.
- Contribute to and advocate for the Stripe design system, ensuring components and patterns work across the Dashboard and other product surfaces.
- Establish frontend quality standards, including patterns, code review practices, and implementation guidance for junior engineers.
- Prototype and explore AI-powered experiences that change how merchants discover and interact with Stripe products.
- Collaborate with backend engineers on integration points, with frontend craft as the core focus.
- Craft experiences that simplify merchants' complex tasks, with high performance, seamless information architecture, and intuitive discoverability.
- Mentor early-career engineers.
Requirements
- The posting describes this as a Staff-level role, typically requiring 10+ years building and shipping complex, user-facing web applications at large scale.
- Deep expertise in modern frontend development, strong opinions on UI quality, and ability to execute with high visual precision.
- Track record of 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.
- Ability to work across a large codebase and bring coherence to high-traffic product surfaces.
- Preferred: a design portfolio and frontend code showcasing microsites, Figma plugins, creative code, design systems, or similar work; frontend performance engineering, including profiling, instrumentation, and optimization; interest in AI-driven user experiences and experience prototyping or shipping AI-powered features; mentoring early-career engineers and contributing to team-wide quality standards; comfort working across the full stack with a preference for frontend craft; advanced proficiency with React, especially interactions, animation, performance, and refinement; experience with A/B testing, synthetic monitoring, or accessibility testing.