Staff Software Engineer, Dashboard

About the role

The role owner is responsible for the frontend quality, consistency, and visual craft of the Stripe Dashboard's highest-traffic pages, with a particular focus on core logged-in surfaces. They identify and execute opportunities to improve consistency, performance, and polish across the Dashboard while partnering closely with Design and Product to serve as the technical voice on frontend feasibility, quality standards, and implementation approach. This position involves contributing to and advocating for the Stripe design system, ensuring components and patterns work well across the Dashboard and other product surfaces. The role owner will establish frontend quality standards for the team, including patterns, code review practices, and implementation guidance for junior engineers. They will also prototype and explore AI-powered experiences that change how merchants discover and interact with Stripe products. Collaboration with backend engineers on integration points is required while keeping frontend craft as the core focus. Additionally, this role mentors early-career engineers to raise the collective quality bar and explores emerging AI agents to unlock new, creative ways for merchants to interact with their business.

Key facts

What you'll do

• 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
• Mentor early-career engineers to raise our collective quality bar
• Explore how emerging AI agents can unlock new, creative ways for merchants to interact with their business
• Drive UX excellence in the Stripe Dashboard through collaboration with skilled designers and engineers
• Craft experiences that simplify complex tasks for merchants, ensuring high performance, seamless information architecture, and intuitive discoverability
• Elevate existing paradigms and invent new ones, with an eye toward broader use cases on the Dashboard
• Help merchants understand their business and execute essential tasks with surprising levels of ease and delight
• Work on the most critical, first-touch surfaces such as the homepage, driving benchmarks for intuitive, reliable software

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 is required, with strong opinions on UI quality and the ability to execute to a high level of visual precision. A track record of driving measurable improvements to UI consistency and polish across large, distributed product surfaces is essential. Candidates must demonstrate mentorship experience by raising the quality bar for less experienced engineers through code review, implementation guidance, and pattern documentation. Strong collaboration skills are required to work effectively with cross-functional partners including designers, product managers, and backend engineers. Comfort with exploring and prototyping AI-powered experiences is a necessary part of this role, as is a commitment to maintaining and evolving the Stripe design system. You must be able to work closely with analytics and data teams to measure the impact of frontend changes on merchant behavior and business outcomes. A proven ability to balance tradeoffs between speed, quality, and maintainability in fast-paced production environments is mandatory.

Nice to have

Preferred qualifications include prior experience with AI agents in product interfaces and a history of contributing to open source or design systems at scale. Experience with financial products or regulatory constraints is beneficial but not required. Familiarity with experimentation platforms and performance optimization at scale is strongly preferred. Background in mentorship or leadership through code review, tech talks, or cross-team training is valued.

Practical notes

This role is based in San Francisco and requires full-time onsite presence. Stripe is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.