Stripe is hiring a Design Engineer, Presence in 8813 Web Presence & Platform — US, Canada. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on stripe.com: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
Who we are
About Stripe
Company context from the listing:
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.
About the team
Company context from the listing:
Web Presence and 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, educating customers about the power of our platform, sharing Stripe's ideas and expertise with the public, and driving adoption.
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.
What you'll do
Day-to-day scope for the Design Engineer, Presence as described in the posting:
As a Design Engineer you will concept, prototype, and build new experiences for our web presence. You'll bring your creativity and expertise to the full range of the Stripe brand, across evergreen pages as well as time-based campaigns.
All Design Engineers in WPP have a shared commitment to user experience and craft, but each pod has subtly different focus areas. The Collective pod leverages design, animation, and interaction to drive awareness, educate prospective users, and share Stripe's expertise across public surfaces such as Stripe.com, Link, and others.
As a Design Engineer on the Collective pod, you will help us continue to drive Stripe.com forward, bringing new experiences to life or refining existing content to inform prospective users about the company and its offerings. You will partner closely with designers, other engineers, and partners to execute and evolve the site, bringing technical craft and creativity to the expansive scope of Stripe's web presence.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day scope for the Design Engineer, Presence as described in the posting:
- 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
Who you are
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
The listing frames the Design Engineer, Presence at Stripe as a hands-on product role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- 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
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- 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