Job Details

Senior Staff Engineer

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Merchant Experience team, you'll be a technical leader responsible for shaping the next generation of how Stripe merchants interact with our products. You'll drive a step-function improvement in the quality and performance of our core surfaces, and help define what AI-powered merchant experiences look like at Stripe.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy for merchant-facing experiences across Stripe, with a focus on quality, performance, and the integration of AI into core user workflows
• Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-team projects that measurably improve the reliability, responsiveness, and polish of Stripe merchant surfaces
• Champion a quality-first engineering cultureestablish standards, tooling, and processes that make it easy to ship high-quality, performant UI by default
• Drive performance as a product featureown the technical approach to making the Dashboard and merchant tools best-in-class in speed and responsiveness, including instrumentation, budgets, and architectural improvements
• Innovate on the future of merchant UXexplore and prototype how AI can transform the way merchants discover, configure, and operate Stripe products, moving beyond traditional dashboard paradigms
• Build platforms and abstractions that make Stripe engineers more productiveframeworks, components, and developer tools that encode best practices for quality and performance
• Partner across Stripe with Product, Design, AI and ML, and infrastructure teams to translate high-level product vision into a concrete technical roadmap
• Mentor and grow engineers across the organization, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of craftsmanship and high standards

Minimum Requirements

• This is a Senior Staff rolethe expected scope of this role includes overseeing the work of 4-6 teams and owning an entire portfolio of productsand while there's no strict minimum we're looking for, most candidates will have at least 10-15 years of experience in the industry
• Experience building and shipping complex, user-facing web applications that have reached large-scale audiences (hundreds of thousands of users) or have been contributed to by hundreds of engineers
• A track record of leading large-scale, cross-functional engineering projects with broad organizational impact
• Deep expertise in modern frontend and full-stack developmentyou have strong opinions on what makes a great user experience and the technical skills to make it real
• Demonstrated ability to drive measurable improvements in software quality and performance (e.g., load times, reliability, test coverage, error rates)
• Experience influencing technical direction and driving alignment across multiple teams without formal authority
• Excellent communication skillsyou can articulate a compelling technical vision to engineers, product leaders, and executives alike

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or maintaining design systems, component libraries, or frontend platform infrastructure at scaleideally with React
• A deep interest in the intersection of AI and UXyou think critically about how emerging technologies change interaction models and are excited to pioneer new paradigms
• Experience with performance engineering, including profiling, instrumentation, budgeting, and optimization of modern web applications
• Experience with the complexities of deploying large web applications at global scalebundling, CDNs, browser compatibility, and build tooling
• Comfort working across the full stackwhile this role skews frontend, you're not afraid to dive into APIs, backend services, or data layers when that's what the problem requires
• Familiarity with distributed systems, API design, and building platforms that serve both internal developers and external users
• A passion for developer experience and making other engineers more productive
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and contributing to engineering culture and hiring
• Hands-on experience integrating AI-powered capabilities into user-facing productsyou've helped ship features that make complex workflows simpler and more intelligent

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams. A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $271,200 - $406,800. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

Office locations: South San Francisco HQ, New York, or Seattle

Remote locations: Remote in United States

Team: Platform

Job type: Full time