Design Engineer, Brand Studio

Stripe

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About The Position

Stripe’s Brand Studio works on brand-centric projects spanning brand standards, campaigns, events, in-person experiences, packaging, digital products, and printed publications. The multidisciplinary team develops visual systems, art direction, and brand and product storytelling across digital and physical environments. Stripe Creative Lab creates experimental, culturally resonant, carefully crafted projects, often starting with ambiguous briefs and challenging technical constraints.

The Design Engineer joins a highly creative team working across digital experiences, interactive projects, physical installations, experimental technology, and other forms a project may require. Working closely with designers, art directors, and producers, the role explores what is possible, prototypes ideas quickly, and turns ambitious creative concepts into working experiences. The engineer brings deep technical expertise in at least one area of creative engineering, along with curiosity and the range to work across adjacent technologies. Work may include independently building and shipping crafted digital experiences, as well as experimenting with hardware, physical computing, unusual displays, installations, or unfamiliar technical systems. The role involves learning, experimenting, and engaging specialists when needed.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of relevant software engineering, creative technology, or creative development experience.
• Deep expertise in at least one area of creative engineering, with 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, including the ability to execute sophisticated creative direction faithfully and identify opportunities to improve it.
• Experience solving unfamiliar technical problems independently.
• Experience writing thoughtful, maintainable code and making pragmatic engineering decisions in fast-moving environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with realtime graphics, WebGL, WebGPU, Three.js, shaders, animation, generative systems, or other forms of creative coding.
• Experience with hardware, physical computing, embedded systems, sensors, displays, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or interactive installations.
• Familiarity with backend development, APIs, networking, cloud infrastructure, or areas beyond frontend engineering.
• Experience collaborating with designers, artists, fabricators, creative studios, or other multidisciplinary partners.
• Experience identifying, evaluating, and directing outside technical specialists when a project exceeds one’s own expertise.
• Deep curiosity about technology, design, craft, and how new technical capabilities can enable new forms of creative work.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and build highly crafted experimental digital experiences, interactive projects, and creative tools.
• Work with designers and art directors to translate ambitious creative direction into technically excellent experiences, using judgment to improve the work.
• Explore emerging technologies and unfamiliar technical approaches, and quickly determine what is possible and how to build it.
• Independently navigate ambiguous technical problems, progressing pragmatically from early experiments to finished work.
• Build and publish standalone web experiences when appropriate, and identify and communicate when more complex projects need additional engineering support.
• 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 as an effective creative and engineering partner.
• Maintain high standards for performance, reliability, usability, and craft without unnecessarily constraining ideas through conventional technical approaches.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed