Staff Backend Engineer - UI Platform

Stripe · Barcelona · 8414 MerchantXP - Eng · listed August 21, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
10+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
4
Length
469 words

In the posting’s own words

The UI Platform team, known as Sail, builds the foundations that support Stripe’s Dashboard and many of Stripe’s other user interfaces. The Sail Services team provides backend-for-frontend services that help product teams build consistent, scalable user experiences.

What it asks for · 4

  • This is a staff-level role, which typically means 10+ years of experience building complex, reliable, scalable APIs or distributed systems
  • Track record of leading the technical design and delivery of large projects across multiple engineering teams
  • Experience setting technical direction and translating strategy into an executable roadmap
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs with engineering, cross-functional partners, and senior leadership

Also a plus

  • Experience building backend-for-frontend systems or frontend platform services
  • Experience working on developer platforms, design systems, or UI infrastructure
  • Experience using agentic development workflows to improve engineering productivity
  • Experience with feature flagging, experimentation, telemetry, or analytics systems

What the job covers

  • Define a cross-team technical strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for the backend services that power Stripe’s merchant-facing experiences
  • Lead the design and delivery of scalable backend services that give product teams a consistent foundation for building reliable user experiences across the Dashboard, mobile applications, and other interfaces
  • Build reusable platform capabilities that help product teams develop, operate, and improve their products with confidence
  • Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to connect the design system, software development kits, APIs, and backend services
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship, raising the quality and effectiveness of the team’s work

Tools and skills named

Product & design
  • Design systems3×
  • Roadmap3×
  • User experience
Ways of working
  • Cross-functional2×
  • Mentorship
Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems
Data
  • Experimentation

Words the posting leans on

  • experience11×
  • technical9×
  • services8×
  • platform7×
  • user7×
  • product6×
  • systems6×
  • build5×
  • design5×
  • backend services4×
  • consistent4×
  • engineering4×
  • engineers4×
  • requirements4×
  • roadmap3×
  • scalable3×

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