10+ years of experience in building and shipping complex, user-facing web applications at scale
Deep expertise in modern frontend development with a focus on UI quality
Proven track record of enhancing UI consistency and polish across large products
Experience collaborating closely with Design teams to implement high-quality production work
Ability to navigate and bring coherence to large codebases, especially in high-traffic areas
Responsibilities
Own the frontend quality and visual craft of high-traffic pages on the Stripe Dashboard
Identify and implement improvements for consistency, performance, and polish across the Dashboard
Collaborate with Design and Product teams to ensure frontend feasibility and quality standards
Advocate for the Stripe design system, ensuring effective component use across products
Establish frontend quality standards, including code review practices for junior engineers
Prototype AI-powered experiences to enhance merchant interactions with Stripe products
Work with backend engineers on integration points while maintaining frontend focus
Benefits
Opportunity to mentor early-career engineers
Collaborative environment with skilled designers and engineers
Focus on innovative AI-driven user experiences
Engagement in high-impact projects that simplify complex tasks for users
Access to a design system that enhances product consistency
Full Job Description
What you'll do
As a 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 work on inventing new paradigms and elevating existing ones, with an eye toward broader use cases on the Dashboard. Working closely with designers and cross-functional groups, you'll craft experiences that help merchants understand their business and execute essential tasks with surprising levels of ease and delight.
You'll also mentor early-career engineers to raise our collective quality bar, all while exploring how emerging AI agents can unlock new, creative ways for merchants to interact with their business. Responsibilities
Own the frontend quality, consistency, and visual craft of 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 closely with Design and Product,, serving 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 your core focus
Who you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. Minimum requirements
This is a Staff-level role - that typically means 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 the ability to execute to a high level of 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
Preferred qualifications
Passion for crafting beautiful experiences on the web, demonstrated through a design portfolio and frontend code showcasing engaging microsites, Figma plugins, creative code, design systems, or other similar endeavors
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
About Stripe
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Stripe powers businesses all over the world, from the new startup that just launched yesterday to the Fortune 500 companies that we all know and love. Stripe is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Dublin, London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, and more.
