Design Engineer, Expansion

Summary

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that helps businesses accept payments, grow revenue, and pursue new opportunities. The Design Engineer will concept, prototype, and build polished web experiences for Stripe’s public presence, collaborating with designers and engineers while contributing to design systems, animations, performance, and experimentation.

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

Skills

• 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
• 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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

Nice to Haves

• 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