Design Engineer, Presence (Expansion)
Design Engineer, Presence (Expansion)
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Job Description
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the worlds 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Web Presence and Platform is organized into two pillars each of which is grouped into pods that focus on the central tenets of Stripes public mission. The Presence pillar creates industry-leading designs for Stripes front door surfaces educating customers about the power of our platform sharing Stripes ideas and expertise with the public and driving adoption. The Platform pillar builds the internal machinery that powers these surfaces and is responsible for making our websites fast stable and easy to update.
Together we design and build 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 Stripes 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 youll do
As a Design Engineer you will concept prototype and build new experiences for our web presence. Youll build new tools and experiences to illustrate the value of Stripes products. Youll often craft individual experiences or animations that distill a complex topic into a simple concept such as Youll constantly consider in-browser performance SEO and discoverability and accessibility. Youll both use existing components and create new ones for other designers and engineers to consume and build upon.
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 Stripes expertise across public surfaces such as Stripe Sessions Stripe Press and Link. The Expansion pod brings the same creativity and executional rigor to attracting new prospects and driving conversion focusing on user journeys interactive and highly polished tools for users and building targeted experiences for our global users.
As a Design Engineer on the Expansion pod you will bring a high standard for creativity and execution to a variety of high-impact opportunities. You will reimagine the user experience moments that contribute to acquisition journeys. You will build delightful and original interactive tools and resources that attract users. You will collaborate deeply across design engineering and cross-functional teams and work across teams and tech stacks to create new site capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with our teams designers and partners to prototype implement and maintain dynamic interactive tools and experiences
- Work closely with other design engineers pairing mentoring and continually building a culture of excellence
- Maintain and extend our design systems
- Build high-polish web pages that meet high standards for SEO accessibility and performance
Who you are
Were 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 elseyou 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 building highly complex interactive tools including state management and data fetching
- Proficiency with React with a focus on interactions animation performance and polish
- Experience with A/B testing synthetic monitoring or accessibility testing
Employment Type
Full Time
