Staff Frontend Engineer, Stripe
AI Design Tooling
£128.8-193.2k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£128.8-193.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience coding production-ready software
- Confidence with both frontend languages, like React and TypeScript, and backend languages, like Express, Ruby
- Experience with, or deep curiosity about building AI-augmented workflows (through LLMs, foundation models, agents, or custom tooling)
- Builder or entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for exploring personal and creative side projects
- Proficiency in building high-craft front-end experiences and scalable APIs, complemented by a working knowledge of backend infrastructure and deployment workflows
- A strong sense of usability and attention to detail that aligns with Stripe’s design principles
- A champion of “working in the open” who communicates early and often through rapid prototyping, open experimentation, and frequent “show and tell” sessions to drive transparency and alignment across the organization
- You can apply a “product builder” mindset to solve the “last mile” problem: transforming standalone AI experiments into polished, production-ready products that prioritize discoverability and ease of use
What the job involves
- At Stripe, we believe that craft and beauty are essential to building tools that people and businesses around the world love and trust. Designers at Stripe sweat every detail, balancing utility, usability, and beauty in everything we ship. These are not just nice-to-have qualities but core to our operating principles and mission
- As an AI Staff Software Engineer, you will be the architect of the engine that powers this obsession by designing and building internal AI tools that accelerate prototyping, inspire experimentation and innovation, and get us to production-ready ideas even faster
- You must be doggedly curious, technical but creative, deeply familiar with the AI landscape, and obsessed with the ever-changing intersection of code, design, and systems thinking
- Partner with designers to understand their workflow and responsibilities and imagine AI-powered tools and agents that left-shift and accelerate prototyping
- Own the development and evolution of scalable, reliable, and production-quality front-end code
- Create documentation and workflows that help teams adopt and master these tools quickly and efficiently
- Write clean, maintainable software that works within Stripe’s stack
- Drive technical decisions and implementation from start to finish and through support and iteration
- Ensure all tooling meets Stripe’s expectations around quality, security, and performance
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payment option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is extending its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil, Japan and India. It is also partnering with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that is monetising OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhancing Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forward with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
- Gym membership 🇬🇧
- Food provided in the office 🇬🇧
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(CEO)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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