Senior Staff Frontend Engineer, Merchant Experience

📋 Description

• 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's 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

🎯 Requirements

• Senior Staff role; oversee 4-6 teams and product portfolio
• Experience shipping complex, user-facing web apps for large-scale audiences
• Track record leading large cross-functional projects
• Deep expertise in frontend and full-stack development with strong UX focus
• Ability to drive measurable quality improvements (load times, reliability, test coverage)
• Excellent communication; articulate technical vision to engineers and execs