Description
Job Description
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.
The Web Presence and Platform (WPP) team designs, builds, and operates Stripe’s public web presence, including stripe.com and other sites. The WPP team creates industry-leading experiences that help customers understand the power of Stripe’s platform, share Stripe’s ideas and expertise, and drive adoption.
Responsibilities
The Design Systems pod builds and stewards Helm, the shared design system behind stripe.com. As an engineer on the Design Systems pod, you will turn Stripe’s visual direction into reusable, production-ready capabilities. You’ll shape components from early design through implementation, testing, documentation, adoption, and ongoing iteration.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and building polished, accessible, and performant React components and patterns that express Stripe’s visual language across stripe.com
- Partnering closely with designers and engineers to shape component behavior, APIs, responsive states, interaction details, and design-token architecture
- Maintaining a high bar for design–code parity and component quality through documentation, accessibility and visual-regression testing, production validation, and in-context review
- Helping workstream teams decide when to compose existing capabilities, extend the system, or keep an implementation local, and leading the upstreaming of broadly reusable work
- Improving how designers, engineers, content authors, and agents discover, understand, and adopt Helm through clear guidance, examples, tooling, and responsive collaboration
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant frontend or design engineering experience building production web experiences or the shared systems and tooling behind them
- Experience building and maintaining a production design system or shared component library, including evolving it through real-world use
- Proficiency with React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, with experience taking interactive, responsive work from design through production
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools as a regular part of software engineering work, with sound judgment about validating their output and maintaining code, product, and security quality
- Experience designing flexible component APIs, primitives, tokens, and composition models that give skilled practitioners meaningful control while preserving accessibility and maintainability
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building expressive, brand-forward web experiences where consistency must coexist with differentiated art direction
- Familiarity with CMS-driven experiences, structured content, localization, or other constraints involved in supporting a large global website
- Experience with tools and practices that connect design and code, such as Figma libraries, design tokens, Code Connect, component documentation, or visual-regression testing
- Experience migrating consumers between design systems or evolving shared components while maintaining compatibility across existing production surfaces