Senior Frontend Design Systems Engineer

Stripe, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking an engineer for the Web Presence and Platform (WPP) team. You will design, build, and steward Helm, Stripe's shared design system behind stripe.com, delivering expressive, accessible web experiences at scale.

You will turn visual direction into reusable components, collaborate with designers and engineers, ensure design-token architecture, and help teams adopt Helm across layouts, interactions, and locales.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of frontend or design engineering experience building production web experiences or shared systems and tooling behind them.
• Experience building and maintaining a production design system or shared component library.
• Proficiency with React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, with experience turning designs into production.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools with judgment to maintain code, product, and security quality.
• Experience designing flexible component APIs, primitives, tokens, and composition models.
• Strong visual and interaction-design judgment and collaboration with designers and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build polished, accessible, and performant React components and patterns that express Stripe’s visual language across stripe.com.
• Partner closely with designers and engineers to shape component behavior, APIs, responsive states, interaction details, and design-token architecture.
• Maintain a high bar for design–code parity and component quality through documentation, accessibility and visual-regression testing, production validation, and in-context review.
• Help workstream teams decide when to compose existing capabilities, extend the system, or keep an implementation local, and lead the upstreaming of broadly reusable work.
• Improve how designers, engineers, content authors, and agents discover, understand, and adopt Helm through clear guidance, examples, tooling, and responsive collaboration.

Skills

Frontend engineering

React

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

Design systems

Accessibility

Testing

Team collaboration

AI-assisted tools

Tools

Figma

Code Connect

CMS

Job description

Stripe is seeking an engineer for the Web Presence and Platform (WPP) team. You will design, build, and steward Helm, Stripe's shared design system behind stripe.com, delivering expressive, accessible web experiences at scale.

You will turn visual direction into reusable components, collaborate with designers and engineers, ensure design-token architecture, and help teams adopt Helm across layouts, interactions, and locales.