Overview

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What you’ll do

As a Design Engineer you will concept, prototype, and build new experiences for our web presence. You’ll build new tools and experiences to illustrate the value of Stripe’s products. You’ll often craft individual experiences or animations that distill a complex topic into a simple concept, such as stripe.com/checkout. You’ll constantly consider in-browser performance, SEO and discoverability, and accessibility. You’ll 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our team’s 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

What you’ll do (continued)

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.

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 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

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is £71,200 - £106,800. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development, Financial Services, and Technology, Information and Internet