Frontend Platform Engineer, Stripe

• 2+ years of software development experience, with a strong foundation in JavaScript or TypeScript
• Knows their way around the modern frontend ecosystem, and has worked on complex web applications with a global user base
• Deep systems thinking: you consider edge cases, failure modes, and downstream effects when designing solutions
• Motivated by improving the experience of the engineers around you; you measure your success by their productivity and happiness
• Comfortable working with high autonomy on problems where the right solution isn't obvious
• Strong written communicator, able to share context and decisions clearly across a distributed team

Desirable

• The JavaScript Infrastructure Engineering team is a high impact, high leverage, and high visibility team that supports the productivity of Stripe’s frontend engineers
• The team creates and supports cross cutting infrastructural libraries, services, and utilities; establishes and enforces clean coding patterns; makes sweeping code changes that improve the quality of code at Stripe; and improves build times and reliability
• That’s not easy. We work with a code base of several million lines of code (and counting), used by thousands of engineers across the globe and we must focus at many levels of the stack
• It's rewarding and what we do is key to allowing Stripe engineers working in our products to have the most productive time of their careers
• We're looking for engineers who are excited about making large-scale frontend development fast, reliable, and maintainable. You'll own parts of the infrastructure that every Stripe UI engineer depends on, from remote devboxes to CI, and build solutions where open-source tooling doesn't scale to our needs
• Build and maintain Stripe's frontend package manager, build toolchain, bundler setup, and TypeScript infrastructure
• Lay the groundwork for AI-native frontend development
• Drive consistency and best practices across Stripe's JS codebases through tooling
• Own SLOs for build performance, install speed, and developer tooling reliability
• Debug and resolve developer-facing incidents during on-call, providing timely support to UI engineers across Stripe
• Partner with frontend product and platform teams to understand friction points and continuously improve the core edit/build/test loop