Frontend Engineer, Stripe
Design System
€61.6-92.4k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€61.6-92.4k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 2-5 years of frontend engineering experience, with proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular) and state management solutions
- Familiarity with building and maintaining frontend components or libraries
- Experience with frontend build tools, module bundlers, package managers, and codemods
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug frontend issues
- Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to collaborate with designers, product managers, and product engineers
Desirable
- Experience with TypeScript or other statically typed languages for frontend development
- Familiarity with frontend performance optimization techniques
- Experience on UI platform teams, or building or contributing to a design system
What the job involves
- The Sail UI team owns Stripe’s design system, and therefore it plays a critical role in the creation of intuitive and high-quality user experiences at Stripe
- We are responsible for delivering essential UI components, infrastructure, and best practices that ensure consistency and excellence across all product surfaces
- Our platform supports a diverse range of applications—from extensive web platforms to embedded interfaces and SEO-optimized sites—empowering product teams to rapidly build and deploy with confidence
- By focusing on consistent interactions, accessibility, and performance, we provide seamless and engaging user interactions
- This is an exciting opportunity to join the team as we build up our presence in Barcelona
- Develop and execute against both short and long term roadmaps to evolve Stripe’s design system
- Contribute to the continuous evolution of the design system, developing new components and integrating across various Stripe products
- Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation
- Assist in establishing and maintaining guidelines and documentation for the design system to ensure consistent usage and implementation
- Partner heavily with product designers and engineers to design and refine user interface patterns and components that support a wide range of use cases
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to incorporate accessibility, internationalization, and performance considerations into design system components
- Engage in troubleshooting, debugging, and optimizing components to ensure reliable and efficient user interface delivery
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."
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-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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