Design Engineer for Experimental Digital Experiences

Stripe, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. in New York seeks a Design Engineer to join a highly creative Brand Studio and Creative Lab. You will prototype and ship highly crafted digital experiences, blending software and hardware with a strong technical fluency and artistic curiosity.

You will collaborate with designers, art directors, and producers to explore new technologies, translate ambitious creative directions, and push the boundaries of interactive media across web, installations, and physical computing projects.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant software engineering, creative technology, or creative development experience.
• Deep expertise in at least one area of creative engineering, with demonstrated curiosity and competence across adjacent technologies.
• A portfolio of technically ambitious, highly crafted work such as experimental websites, interactive experiences, realtime graphics, games, installations, creative tools, or other unusual applications of technology.
• Strong frontend engineering fundamentals and experience independently building and shipping public-facing web experiences.
• Strong visual and interaction sensibility, with the ability to faithfully execute sophisticated creative direction and identify opportunities to improve it.
• Experience solving unfamiliar technical problems with a high degree of independence.
• Experience writing thoughtful, maintainable code and making pragmatic engineering decisions in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and build highly crafted, experimental digital experiences, interactive projects, and creative tools.
• Work closely with designers and art directors to translate ambitious creative direction into technically excellent experiences, while contributing your own judgment to make the work better.
• Explore emerging technologies and unfamiliar technical approaches, quickly determining what is possible and how best to build it.
• Independently navigate ambiguous technical problems, moving pragmatically from early experiments to finished work.
• Build and publish standalone web experiences when appropriate, while identifying and communicating the additional engineering support required for more complex projects.
• Experiment with hardware, physical computing, displays, sensors, embedded systems, and other technologies when projects call for them.
• Collaborate with external engineers, fabricators, technical studios, and other specialists, contributing enough technical fluency to be an effective creative and engineering partner.
• Maintain a high bar for performance, reliability, usability, and craft without allowing conventional technical approaches to unnecessarily constrain an idea.

Skills

Frontend engineering

Creative engineering

WebGL

Realtime graphics

Tools

Three.js

Shaders

WebGL

Job description

Stripe, Inc. in New York seeks a Design Engineer to join a highly creative Brand Studio and Creative Lab. You will prototype and ship highly crafted digital experiences, blending software and hardware with a strong technical fluency and artistic curiosity.

You will collaborate with designers, art directors, and producers to explore new technologies, translate ambitious creative directions, and push the boundaries of interactive media across web, installations, and physical computing projects.