Staff Software Engineer, Dashboard
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Own the frontend quality, consistency, and visual craft of the Stripe Dashboard's highest-traffic pages, focusing on core logged-in surfaces. Identify and execute opportunities to improve consistency, performance, and polish across the Dashboard while partnering with Design and Product to serve as the technical voice on feasibility and quality standards. Contribute to the Stripe design system, establish frontend quality standards including code review practices, and prototype AI-powered experiences that change how merchants interact with Stripe products. Mentor early-career engineers to raise the collective quality bar while collaborating on backend integration points. This Staff-level role requires 10+ years of experience building complex web applications and emphasizes deep expertise in React, performance engineering, and AI-driven user experiences.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- 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
- Ability to translate design intent into high-quality production implementation
- Demonstrated ability to work across a large codebase
- Ability to bring coherence to high-traffic product surfaces
Desired Qualifications
- Passion for crafting beautiful experiences on the web
- Demonstrated design portfolio
- Frontend code showcasing engaging microsites
- Figma plugins
- Creative code
- Design systems
- Other similar endeavors
- Familiarity with frontend performance engineering
- Experience with profiling
- Experience with instrumentation
- Experience with optimization
- Interest in AI-driven user experiences
- Experience prototyping AI-powered features
- Experience shipping AI-powered features
- Experience mentoring early-career engineers
- Contributing to team-wide quality standards
- Comfort working across the full stack
- Clear preference and passion for frontend craft
- Advanced proficiency with React
- Emphasis on interactions
- Emphasis on animation
- Emphasis on performance
- Emphasis on refinement
- Experience with A/B testing
- Experience with synthetic monitoring
- Experience with accessibility testing
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