Frontend Engineer, UI Components and Patterns

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Stripe Dashboard is the primary way that businesses manage their Stripe accounts with a web browser. The UI Components and Patterns team works across it holistically to ensure that Stripe has the best product dashboard in the world. The team operates by identifying and creating high-leverage opportunities, building great experiences for our users, and then scaling its methodology and learnings across the Dashboard.

What you’ll do

As a frontend engineer on the team, you’ll build and maintain platform-level components 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, easy-to-navigate, and modern. You’ll collaborate with engineers and designers across many teams to identify new opportunities to improve and expand the Dashboard’s capabilities. Your work will be used by other engineers throughout Stripe, enabling them to ship high quality products with maximum throughput. Your impact will be felt both by product engineers building on top of your work, as well as real businesses out there in the world utilizing the Dashboard every day.

Responsibilities

• Partner with other teams–especially product, design and engineering–to understand and solve for their needs while considering the bigger picture
• Design, build, roll out, and maintain UI paradigms that other teams rely on
• Ensure code is  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

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• Experience identifying and building frontend platform capabilities that solve broad problems for other teams
• Expert at building consistent, accessible, and responsive web UIs
• Motivated by solving hard problems, and measure your success in terms of impact doing so
• Thrive in a collaborative environment with other teams to identify high-impact ways of solving problems quickly
• Excellent oral and written communication
• 2+ years of professional, hands-on, frontend software development experience

Preferred qualifications

• Proficiency in TypeScript and React (or equivalent technologies);
• Focus on simplicity: You prioritize simple, elegant solutions and designs over complex ones, demonstrating an intuitive understanding of what will endure and scale effectively;
• Cross-Platform experience: You have a track record of designing and building user experiences that function seamlessly across a variety of browsers and devices;
• User-Centric mindset: You can empathize with users, understanding their needs while integrating those insights into the broader scope of the project;
• Familiarity with Design Systems: You have experience or interest with design systems and component libraries;
• Rapid prototyping: You enjoy creating and collaborating alongside designers to bring concepts to life;
• Commitment to documentation: You value and prioritize the importance of clear, comprehensive docs.