Frontend Engineer, Design Systems

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Web Presence and Platform (WPP) designs, builds, and operates Stripe’s public web presence, including stripe.com and other sites that may be the first impression of Stripe for many. We create industry-leading experiences that help customers understand the power of Stripe’s platform, share Stripe’s ideas and expertise, and drive adoption. We also build the systems and operational foundations behind those experiences, making our websites fast, stable, and easy to evolve.

What it asks for · 6

• 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, with experience taking interactive, responsive work from design through production
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools as a regular part of software engineering work, 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 skilled practitioners meaningful control while preserving accessibility and maintainability
• Strong visual and interaction-design judgment, along with the communication skills to collaborate with experienced designers and engineers on ambiguous system-level tradeoffs

Also a plus

• 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

What the job covers

• Design and build polished, accessible, and performant React components and patterns that express Stripe’s visual language across stripe.com
• Partner closely with designers and engineers to shape component behavior, APIs, responsive states, interaction details, and design-token architecture
• Maintain a high bar for design–code parity and component quality through documentation, accessibility and visual-regression testing, production validation, and in-context review
• Help workstream teams decide when 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 clear guidance, examples, tooling, and responsive collaboration

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• design17×
• experience15×
• systems11×
• component9×
• production6×
• build5×
• code5×
• engineering4×
• engineers4×
• helm4×
• requirements4×
• responsive4×
• shared4×
• accessibility3×
• behind3×
• capabilities3×

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