Design Engineer: Interactive & Experimental Tech

Stripe, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a Design Engineer for the Creative Lab to join a highly creative team working across digital experiences, interactive projects, and experimental technology.

You will prototype ideas, build technically excellent experiences, and push the boundaries of what is possible in creative engineering. You will collaborate with designers, art directors, and producers to translate ambitious creative direction into working experiences while exploring unfamiliar technical approaches

Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years of relevant software engineering, creative technology, or creative development experience.
• Deep expertise in at least one area of creative engineering with curiosity across adjacent technologies.
• Portfolio of technically ambitious, highly crafted work such as experimental websites, interactive experiences, realtime graphics, games, installations, 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.
• Experience solving unfamiliar technical problems with a high degree of independence.

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

Public-facing web experiences

Independent problem solving

Job description

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a Design Engineer for the Creative Lab to join a highly creative team working across digital experiences, interactive projects, and experimental technology.

You will prototype ideas, build technically excellent experiences, and push the boundaries of what is possible in creative engineering. You will collaborate with designers, art directors, and producers to translate ambitious creative direction into working experiences while exploring unfamiliar technical approaches