The opportunity
The UI Platform team, known as Sail, builds the foundations behind Stripe’s Dashboard and many other user interfaces. Sail Services owns the systems that evaluate feature flags and experiments, ingest frontend analytics, and improve Dashboard load times for Stripe’s largest merchants.
What you'll do
Take end-to-end ownership of software projects, aligning on priorities and: then independently scoping problems and carrying solutions through design, implementation, testing, rollout, and operation
Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable APIs and backend systems that: support Stripe’s Dashboard, mobile applications, and other user interfaces
Help modernize Stripe’s UI architecture through incremental migrations,: automated validation, shadow traffic, and carefully controlled production rollouts
Improve the reliability, observability, performance, and operability of services on critical user paths
Partner with frontend, backend, and infrastructure engineers to understand: their needs and turn recurring problems into reusable platform capabilities
Use AI-assisted and agentic development workflows to improve implementation, testing, validation, and delivery
What they're looking for
- Fluency in using AI-assisted and agentic development tools as part of: day-to-day software engineering, including critically reviewing, validating, and improving generated code
- + years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent: practical experience, building, shipping, and operating production systems
- Strong knowledge of backend technologies and infrastructure, including the: fundamentals of APIs, data storage, distributed systems, and production operations
- Ability to independently scope and deliver open-ended software projects,: making practical technical and product tradeoffs with limited oversight
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with attention to testing,: maintainability, reliability, and user impact
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate: effectively with frontend engineers, product engineers, and infrastructure partners
- Experience building backend-for-frontend systems, UI platform services,: developer platforms, or shared infrastructure
- Experience designing or integrating APIs, including GraphQL APIs