Staff Software Engineer AI Design Tooling

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse Stripe to accept payments grow their revenue and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the Team

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.

What youll do

• 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 Stripes stack.
• Drive technical decisions and implementation from start to finish and through support and iteration.
• Ensure all tooling meets Stripes expectations around quality security and performance.

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 Stripes 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.

Required Experience:

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