The opportunity
The UI Platform team, known as Sail, builds the foundations that support Stripe’s Dashboard and many of Stripe’s other user interfaces. The Sail UI team owns Stripe’s design system, helping Stripe engineers create consistent, accessible, performant, and high-quality experiences at scale.
What you'll do
Take end-to-end ownership of software projects, independently scoping: problems and carrying solutions through design, implementation, testing, and rollout
Build and maintain accessible, performant, and well-tested components,: themes, and frontend APIs used across Stripe
Build tooling, documentation, and automated quality checks that help: engineers and AI coding agents use Sail effectively and meet Stripe’s UI quality bar
Partner with product designers and engineers to understand their needs and: turn recurring UI patterns into reusable design-system capabilities
Help evolve the visual language of Stripe’s Dashboard while modernizing its: underlying codebase and migrating legacy UI patterns
Improve the accessibility, internationalization, observability, performance,: reliability, and developer experience of the design system
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 frontend engineering experience, or equivalent: practical experience, building, shipping, and debugging web applications
- Strong knowledge of modern frontend technologies and frameworks, including: browser fundamentals, responsive design, and accessibility
- Ability to independently scope and deliver open-ended frontend projects,: making practical technical and product tradeoffs with limited oversight
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with attention to testing,: maintainability, and the quality of the resulting user experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate: effectively with designers, product engineers, and other partners
- Experience working on a design system, frontend platform, or shared component library
- Experience with developer tooling such as build tools, package managers,: codemods, lint rules, or large monorepos