Frontend Platform Engineer, JavaScript Infrastructure

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Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use 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 everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About The Organization

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.

What you’ll do

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.

Responsibilities

• 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
  
  
  

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• 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
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or contributing to developer tooling, CLI tools, or build infrastructure
• A background building frontend products with React is helpful, but we're especially interested in candidates eager to improve how frontend developers work, wherever that takes them in the stack.
  
  
  

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is CA$135,200 - CA$202,800. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.