Senior Staff Frontend Architect for AI-Driven UX

Stripe; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 271,000 - 407,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonuses

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for the Merchant Experience team to lead 50+ engineers, shaping the next generation of how Stripe merchants interact with our products and AI-powered experiences. You will drive a step-function improvement in quality and performance across core surfaces and dashboards.

You will mentor engineers, define technical roadmaps, and partner with Product, Design, AI, and Infra teams to deliver scalable merchant tools and UX innovations.

Qualifications

• 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

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

Skills

Frontend development

Full-stack development

Cross-team leadership

Performance optimization

Communication skills

Technical vision

Tools

React

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for the Merchant Experience team to lead 50+ engineers, shaping the next generation of how Stripe merchants interact with our products and AI-powered experiences. You will drive a step-function improvement in quality and performance across core surfaces and dashboards.

You will mentor engineers, define technical roadmaps, and partner with Product, Design, AI, and Infra teams to deliver scalable merchant tools and UX innovations.