Staff Software Engineer, Dashboard Product

Stripe • Seattle, WA

12h

About The Position

As a Frontend Engineer on Stripe’s Dashboard Product team, you’ll collaborate with designers and engineers to improve user experience in the Stripe Dashboard. You’ll build experiences that simplify complex tasks for merchants through strong performance, clear information architecture, and intuitive discoverability. The role includes inventing new interaction paradigms and improving existing ones for broader Dashboard use, helping merchants understand their business and complete essential tasks with ease.

You’ll focus on the quality, consistency, and visual craft of the Dashboard’s highest-traffic pages, especially core logged-in surfaces. You’ll partner with Design and Product, contribute to Stripe’s design system, collaborate with backend engineers on integration points, and establish frontend standards and guidance. You’ll also mentor early-career engineers and explore AI-powered ways for merchants to discover and interact with Stripe products.

Requirements

• Typically 10+ years of experience 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 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.

Nice To Haves

• A design portfolio and frontend code demonstrating a passion for crafting web experiences, such as engaging microsites, Figma plugins, creative code, or design systems.
• 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, emphasizing interactions, animation, performance, and refinement.
• Experience with A/B testing, synthetic monitoring, or accessibility testing.

Responsibilities

• Own frontend quality, consistency, and visual craft for the Stripe Dashboard’s highest-traffic pages, with particular focus on core logged-in surfaces.
• Identify and execute opportunities to improve consistency, performance, and polish across the Dashboard.
• Partner with Design and Product as the technical voice on frontend feasibility, quality standards, and implementation approach.
• Contribute to and advocate for the Stripe design system, ensuring components and patterns work 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 that change how merchants discover and interact with Stripe products.
• Collaborate with backend engineers on integration points while keeping frontend craft as the core focus.
• Mentor early-career engineers and raise the team’s collective quality bar.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed