# Staff Software Engineer, Dashboard

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** React, JavaScript, Frontend Development, Frontend Performance, Profiling, Instrumentation, Design Systems, Ai-Powered Features, A/B Testing, Synthetic Monitoring, Accessibility Testing, Figma Plugins
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Staff frontend engineer responsible for the quality, consistency, performance, and visual craft of high-traffic Stripe Dashboard surfaces. The role requires 10+ years building complex web applications, advanced React expertise, strong design collaboration, and experience mentoring engineers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Own the frontend quality, consistency, and visual craft of the Stripe Dashboard's highest-traffic pages, particularly core logged-in surfaces.
- Identify and execute opportunities to improve consistency, performance, and polish across the Dashboard.
- Partner closely with Design and Product 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 the core focus.
- Mentor early-career engineers and raise the collective quality bar.

## Requirements

- 10+ years of experience building and shipping complex, user-facing web applications at large scale.
- Deep expertise in modern frontend development, with strong opinions on UI quality and the ability to execute with high visual precision.
- Track record of driving measurable improvements to UI consistency and polish across large, distributed products.
- Experience working closely with Design teams and translating design intent into high-quality production implementation.
- Demonstrated ability to work across a large codebase and bring coherence to high-traffic product surfaces.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Passion for crafting beautiful web experiences, demonstrated through a design portfolio and frontend code showcasing engaging microsites, Figma plugins, creative code, design systems, or similar work.
- Familiarity with frontend performance engineering, including profiling, instrumentation, and optimization.
- Interest in AI-driven user experiences, with experience prototyping or shipping AI-powered features.
- Experience mentoring early-career engineers and contributing to team-wide quality standards.
- Comfort working across the full stack when needed, with a clear preference and passion for frontend craft.
- Advanced proficiency with React, emphasizing interactions, animation, performance, and refinement.
- Experience with A/B testing, synthetic monitoring, or accessibility testing.

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