Design Engineer, Web

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 & 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, educates customers about the power of our platform, and drives our business success. The Platform pillar builds the internal machinery that powers these surfaces, and is responsible for making our websites fast, stable, and easy to modify.

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 have the breadth to design, concept, prototype, and build new experiences for our web presence. You’ll create new components in our libraries, and use those to build pages like stripe.com/apps and stripe.com/connect. You’ll often craft individual experiences or animations that distill a complex topic into a simple concept, like stripe.com/checkout. You’ll constantly have in-browser performance in mind, and create abstractions that other designers and engineers consume and build upon.

All Design Engineers in WPP take a broad approach to the UX, but each pod has subtly different focus areas. The Storytelling pod leverages design, animation, and interaction to explain Stripe and educate our users across the primary Stripe.com surfaces. The Moments pod focuses on creating and reinforcing brand moments outside of the core Stripe.com identity, with ownership including Stripe Sessions, Stripe Press, and Link.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our team’s designers to prototype and implement web animations and interaction-heavy product launch materials
• Work closely with other design engineers, pairing, mentoring, and continually building a culture of excellence
• Design and build entire web experiences
• Concept and prototype UX components and motion studies
• Maintain and extend our design systems
• Build high-performance web pages

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
• Experience with A/B testing, synthetic monitoring, or accessibility testing