# Senior Staff Frontend Engineer, Merchant Experience

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Merchant Experience team at Stripe, you will be a technical leader responsible for shaping the next generation of how Stripe merchants interact with our products. You will 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, focusing on quality, performance, and AI integration into core user workflows.

- Lead complex, cross-team projects that improve the reliability, responsiveness, and polish of Stripe's merchant surfaces.

- Champion a quality-first engineering culture by establishing standards, tooling, and processes for high-quality UI.

- Drive performance as a product feature, owning the technical approach to making the Dashboard and merchant tools best-in-class in speed and responsiveness.

- Innovate on the future of merchant UX by exploring and prototyping how AI can transform merchant interactions with Stripe products.

- Build platforms and abstractions that make Stripe engineers more productive, such as frameworks, components, and developer tools.

- Partner across Stripe with various teams to translate product vision into a concrete technical roadmap.

- Mentor and grow engineers across the organization, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of craftsmanship.

## Requirements

- Senior Staff role with experience overseeing 4-6 teams and owning a portfolio of products.

- At least 10-15 years of experience in the industry.

- Experience building and shipping complex, user-facing web applications with large-scale audiences.

- Track record of leading large-scale engineering projects with broad organizational impact.

- Deep expertise in modern frontend and full-stack development.

- Demonstrated ability to drive measurable improvements in software quality and performance.

- Experience influencing technical direction and driving alignment across multiple teams.

- Excellent communication skills for articulating technical vision to various stakeholders.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with design systems, component libraries, or frontend platform infrastructure at scale, ideally with React.

- Interest in the intersection of AI and UX, with critical thinking on emerging technologies.

- Experience with performance engineering, profiling, instrumentation, budgeting, and optimization of modern web applications.

- Familiarity with deploying large web applications at global scale.

- Comfort working across the full stack, including APIs, backend services, and data layers.

- Passion for developer experience and making 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.

## Skills

### Required
- modern frontend development
- full-stack development
- technical leadership
- performance engineering
- AI integration
- quality-first engineering culture

### Nice to have
- React
- design systems
- component libraries
- frontend platform infrastructure
- AI and UX
- global web application deployment
- developer experience

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