Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, aiming to increase the GDP of the internet. As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Merchant Experience team, you will lead the development of merchant-facing experiences, focusing on quality, performance, and AI integration.
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 culture—establish standards, tooling, and processes that make it easy to ship high-quality, performant UI by default
- Drive performance as a product feature—own 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 UX—explore 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 productive—frameworks, 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
Skills
- This is a Senior Staff role—the expected scope of this role includes overseeing the work of 4-6 teams and owning an entire portfolio of products—and 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 development—you 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 skills—you can articulate a compelling technical vision to engineers, product leaders, and executives alike
- Experience building or maintaining design systems, component libraries, or frontend platform infrastructure at scale—ideally with React
- A deep interest in the intersection of AI and UX—you 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 scale—bundling, CDNs, browser compatibility, and build tooling
- Comfort working across the full stack—while 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 products—you've helped ship features that make complex workflows simpler and more intelligent
Benefits
- Equity
- Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
- 401(k) plan
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Wellness stipends
Company Overview
Stripe is a financial technology company that provides online payment processing and payment infrastructure for businesses. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://stripe.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Stripe has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 40 in 2026, 272 in 2025, 283 in 2024, 141 in 2023, 379 in 2022, 276 in 2021, 111 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.