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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Staff Software Engineer, Stripe Dashboard - **Company:** Stripe, Inc. - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Browser Compatibility, Software as a Service, Code Coverage, Profiling, Software Quality, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Design of User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Web Applications, ReactJS, Backend, Data Layers, Stripe, Material UI, Front End Software Development, Api Design - **Published:** October 27, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-staff-software-engineer-stripe-dashboard-seattle-wa--693010eb-3962-44f2-9f9d-a9d20b7d0dee ## About the Role Software Engineering, Reporting Dashboards, Startup, Revenue Growth, Operating Systems, Reporting Dashboards, Machine Tool, Software as a Service (SaaS), User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Business Solutions, * 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 ## Description As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Merchant Experience team, you'll be a technical leader across 50+ Engineers 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 culture - establish standards, tooling, and processes that make it easy to ship high-quality, performant UI by default * Drive performance as a product feature and 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