About The Position
The Frontend Engineer will join Stripe’s Web Presence and Platform (WPP) Design Systems pod, which builds and stewards Helm, the shared design system behind stripe.com. The team creates components, patterns, tools, and guidance that help WPP teams deliver expressive, consistent, high-quality web experiences at scale, aligning design intent, production code, and real-world usage. The engineer will turn Stripe’s visual direction into reusable, production-ready capabilities, shaping components from early design through implementation, testing, documentation, adoption, and iteration. The role combines design judgment and frontend expertise to ensure Helm works across responsive layouts, interaction states, accessibility needs, performance constraints, content models, and locales. The engineer will also partner with teams using Helm to help them apply the system, identify reusable patterns, and contribute improvements.
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, and experience taking interactive, responsive work from design through production.
- Experience regularly using AI-assisted development tools in software engineering, 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 practitioners meaningful control while preserving accessibility and maintainability.
- Strong visual and interaction-design judgment and communication skills for collaborating with experienced designers and engineers on ambiguous system-level tradeoffs.
Nice To Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design and build polished, accessible, and performant React components and patterns that express Stripe’s visual language across stripe.com.
- Partner with designers and engineers to shape component behavior, APIs, responsive states, interaction details, and design-token architecture.
- Maintain design–code parity and component quality through documentation, accessibility and visual-regression testing, production validation, and in-context review.
- Help workstream teams decide whether to compose existing capabilities, extend the system, or keep an implementation local, and lead the upstreaming of broadly reusable work.
- Improve how designers, engineers, content authors, and agents discover, understand, and adopt Helm through guidance, examples, tooling, and collaboration.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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