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 Brand Studio team works on a variety of brand-centric projects for Stripe, from our brand standards to campaigns, events, IRL experiences, packaging, digital products, and even printed publications. The brand designers on this team are multidisciplinary in nature, able to design robust visual systems, art direction, and craft surfaces that focus on brand and product storytelling.
As a Design Engineer, you’ll work closely with designers, art directors, and producers to figure out what’s possible, prototype ideas quickly, and turn ambitious creative concepts into working experiences. You’ll bring deep technical expertise in at least one area of creative engineering, alongside the curiosity and technical range to work confidently beyond it.
Responsibilities
- Prototype and build highly crafted, experimental digital experiences, interactive projects, and creative tools
- Work closely with designers and art directors to translate ambitious creative direction into technically excellent experiences, while contributing your own judgment to make the work better
- Explore emerging technologies and unfamiliar technical approaches, quickly determining what is possible and how best to build it
- Independently navigate ambiguous technical problems, moving pragmatically from early experiments to finished work
- Build and publish standalone web experiences when appropriate, while identifying and communicating the additional engineering support required for more complex projects
- Experiment with hardware, physical computing, displays, sensors, embedded systems, and other technologies when projects call for them
- Collaborate with external engineers, fabricators, technical studios, and other specialists, contributing enough technical fluency to be an effective creative and engineering partner
- Maintain a high bar for performance, reliability, usability, and craft without allowing conventional technical approaches to unnecessarily constrain an idea
Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant software engineering, creative technology, or creative development experience
- Deep expertise in at least one area of creative engineering, with demonstrated curiosity and competence across adjacent technologies
- A portfolio of technically ambitious, highly crafted work such as experimental websites, interactive experiences, realtime graphics, games, installations, creative tools, or other unusual applications of technology
- Strong frontend engineering fundamentals and experience independently building and shipping public-facing web experiences
- Strong visual and interaction sensibility, with the ability to faithfully execute sophisticated creative direction and identify opportunities to improve it
- Experience solving unfamiliar technical problems with a high degree of independence
- Experience writing thoughtful, maintainable code and making pragmatic engineering decisions in fast-moving environments