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 Services team provides backend-for-frontend services that help product teams build consistent, scalable user experiences.
What you'll do
Define a cross-team technical strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmap: for the backend services that power Stripe’s merchant-facing experiences
Lead the design and delivery of scalable backend services that give product: teams a consistent foundation for building reliable user experiences across the Dashboard, mobile applications, and other interfaces
Build reusable platform capabilities that help product teams develop,: operate, and improve their products with confidence
Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to connect the design: system, software development kits, APIs, and backend services
Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews, technical: guidance, and mentorship, raising the quality and effectiveness of the team’s work
What they're looking for
- This is a staff-level role, which typically means 10+ years of experience: building complex, reliable, scalable APIs or distributed systems
- Track record of leading the technical design and delivery of large projects across multiple engineering teams
- Experience setting technical direction and translating strategy into an executable roadmap
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs with: engineering, cross-functional partners, and senior leadership
- Experience building backend-for-frontend systems or frontend platform services
- Experience working on developer platforms, design systems, or UI infrastructure
- Experience using agentic development workflows to improve engineering productivity
- Experience with feature flagging, experimentation, telemetry, or analytics systems
