Stripe is hiring a
Frontend Platform Engineer

Summary

Join a team that designs, builds, evolves, and maintains the foundational frontend ecosystem at Stripe. As a JavaScript Infrastructure Engineer, you'll own systems and tools, drive changes for increased productivity of engineers working on frontend applications, and build a great experience for people using your team's products.

Requirements

• Thinks deeply about systems — their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles
• Knows their way around the modern frontend ecosystem, and has worked on complex web applications with a global user base
• Can debug problems that span systems, and design solutions that span the whole stack
• Is energized by focusing on the needs of our users, both internal and external
• Holds themselves and others to a high bar when working with production systems
• Writes high quality code, and is willing to work outside frontend technologies
• Is adept at clear, concise, well-organized written communication about their work
• Has at least 4 years of experience as a software engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, evolve, and maintain the foundational frontend ecosystem and underlying tools used by all of Stripe’s product engineering teams
• Own and drive changes that increase the productivity of Stripe engineers working on frontend applications
• Work with your teammates to own and innovate on the frontend development experience at Stripe
• Build a great experience for people using your team’s products
• Drive frontend reliability improvements across Stripe products, through new platforms, capabilities, and best-in-class tools that give engineers rapid visibility into how their changes are affecting users
• Enable step-change improvements in our frontend build times by experimenting with new technologies like esbuild
• Improve the day-to-day frontend development experience of Stripe engineers by supporting rapid iteration and real time feedback about accessibility, performance, browser compatibility, and more
• Own the core JavaScript toolchain that lets product teams build and experiment on web applications that are resilient, performant, and operationally sound

Preferred Qualifications

A frontend background may be helpful, but we’re especially interested in candidates who are eager to work on solutions that increase the productivity and happiness of frontend developers, no matter where they have to work in the stack