Staff Software Engineer, Dashboard Product

Stripe • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

The Staff Software Engineer will join Stripe’s Dashboard Product team, which builds and refines user experiences for merchants and shared interface patterns for internal product teams. The role focuses on frontend craft across the Dashboard’s highest-traffic and core logged-in surfaces, creating intuitive, high-performance experiences that help merchants understand their business and complete essential tasks. The engineer will work closely with Design, Product, and backend engineering, contribute to Stripe’s design system, and explore AI-powered ways for merchants to discover and interact with Stripe products. The role also includes mentoring early-career engineers and establishing frontend quality practices across the team.

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 the 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 crafted 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, particularly interactions, animation, performance, and refinement.
• Experience with A/B testing, synthetic monitoring, or accessibility testing.

Responsibilities

• Own frontend quality, consistency, and visual craft across the Stripe Dashboard’s highest-traffic pages, particularly core logged-in surfaces.
• Identify and deliver opportunities to improve Dashboard consistency, performance, and polish.
• Partner with Design and Product, providing technical guidance on frontend feasibility, quality standards, and implementation approaches.
• Contribute to and advocate for Stripe’s 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 while keeping frontend craft as the primary focus.
• Mentor early-career engineers and help raise the team’s quality bar.

What This Job Offers

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