AI Staff Software Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - 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.

Required Skills

• - 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.

Benefits

• - Equity
• - Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• - Retirement plans
• - Health benefits
• - Wellness stipends