Frontend Engineer, Stripe
UI Components and Patterns
$163.1-244.7k
Salary applicable to US applicants only
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$163.1-244.7k
Salary applicable to US applicants only
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of professional, hands-on, frontend software development experience
- You are an expert at building consistent, accessible, and responsive web UIs using React, TypeScript, and CSS
- You have excellent oral and written communication
- You are motivated by solving hard problems, and measure your success in terms of impact doing so
- You thrive in a collaborative environment involving engineers, designers, and other teams to identify high-impact ways of solving problems quickly
Desirable
- You strive for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale well
- You have experience designing and building experiences that work elegantly across commonly used browsers and devices
- You can put yourself in the shoes of your users to understand their needs and fit that into the bigger picture
- You have experience building or extending a design system
- You value and prioritize great documentation
What the job involves
- The Stripe Dashboard is the primary way that merchants manage their Stripe accounts with a web browser
- The UI Components and Patterns team is making the Dashboard’s UI and UX more consistent, accessible, mobile responsive, and modern
- We’re doing this by building and establishing Dashboard-wide patterns that we and other teams use, and by creating and updating platform-level UI components
- Our team is composed of engineers and designers
- We’re primarily remote, and distributed throughout North America
- As a frontend engineer on the UI Components and Patterns team, you’ll build platform-level components, patterns, and guidelines for the Stripe Dashboard, elevating the experience for every merchant
- By creating and expanding these platform capabilities, you’ll make the page-to-page and product-to-product experience in the Dashboard more consistent, accessible, mobile responsive, and modern
- And on top of that, you’ll accelerate other teams at Stripe by enabling them to focus on their unique goals without needing to think about platform-level concerns
- You’ll work with engineers and designers across many teams to identify new opportunities to improve and expand the Dashboard’s capabilities
- We “raise the floor” for ourselves and the rest of Stripe. Our team emphasizes high-polish user experiences, data-driven decision making, and iterative development
- Design, build, roll out, and maintain UI components and patterns that other teams rely on
- Ensure our UI components and patterns are consistent, accessible, mobile responsive, and flexible
- Plan and execute against short-term and long-term goals
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Partner with other teams to understand and solve for their needs while considering the bigger picture
- Teach and mentor others; as a senior member of the team, you will be looked to for guidance
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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