Design Engineer, Expansion

Stripe; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Design Engineer to craft and evolve the company’s web presence. You will translate creative concepts into production-ready interfaces, working across evergreen pages and time-based campaigns.

You’ll leverage design systems and libraries, contribute to front-end code, and push for fast, accessible experiences. A portfolio demonstrating strong HTML/CSS, React-based work, and animations is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of web front-end development experience.
• Strong HTML and CSS knowledge.
• Portfolio with public websites and design systems.
• Experience collaborating in a team and shipping production code.
• Experience building public-facing websites across browsers/devices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers and partners to create and maintain Stripe.com experiences.
• Pair with other design engineers, mentoring and fostering excellence.
• Prototype and implement web animations and interaction-heavy launch materials.
• Build beautiful, end-user experiences to solve complex problems.
• Extend and maintain Stripe's design systems and components.
• Integrate our web platform with self-serve authoring and experimentation.

Skills

HTML & CSS

JavaScript/React

Design systems

Portfolio

Performance optimization

Tools

React

Figma

WebGL

Job description

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 team

Web Presence and Platform is organized into two pillars, each of which is grouped into pods that focus on the central tenets of Stripe's public mission. The Presence pillar creates industry-leading designs for Stripe's front door surfaces, educating customers about the power of our platform, sharing Stripe's ideas and expertise with the public, and driving adoption. The Platform pillar builds the internal machinery that powers these surfaces, and is responsible for making our websites fast, stable, and easy to update.

Together we design and build stripe.com

and other sites that amount to what is, for many, their first impression of Stripe. As such, WPP offers exciting opportunities to have a major impact on Stripe's success. We want to make every pixel count, we want it to be enthralling, and we want to help other Stripes seamlessly benefit from our systematic work.

What you’ll do

As a Design Engineer you will concept, prototype, and build new experiences for our web presence. You'll bring your creativity and expertise to the full range of the Stripe brand, across evergreen pages as well as time-based campaigns. You'll both utilize and contribute to our libraries and design systems, and, when appropriate, work outside established systems to create new digital moments. You'll constantly have in-browser performance in mind, and create abstractions that other designers and engineers consume and build upon.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our team's designers and partners to both create new experiences for and maintain Stripe.com
• Work closely with other design engineers, pairing, mentoring, and continually building a culture of excellence
• Prototype and implement web animations and interaction-heavy product launch materials
• Build beautiful, best-in-class end-user experiences to solve complex problems
• Utilize, maintain, and extend our design systems
• Integrate our web platform with self-serve authoring and experimentation

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

• 3+ years of relevant web front-end development or creative technology experience at a tech-forward, product-driven company
• Advanced knowledge of modern HTML and CSS
• Experience writing clear, elegant code in a team environment
• A zeal for the web as a storytelling medium, demonstrable through a portfolio of design work and frontend code showcasing design systems, engaging microsites, Figma plugins, webGL experiments, CSS art, or anything else—you tell us
• Experience designing and building public-facing websites that work elegantly across commonly used browsers and devices

Preferred qualifications

• A good understanding of the formal elements of design, not just limited to the web and including typography, layout, balance, and proportion
• Proficiency with React, with a focus on interactions, animation, performance, and polish
• Experience with A/B testing, synthetic monitoring, or accessibility testing