Design Engineer, Brand Studio

Details

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. Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

About the Team

The Brand Studio team works on brand-centric projects for Stripe, including brand standards, campaigns, events, real-world experiences, packaging, digital products, and printed publications. The team creates robust visual systems, art direction, and crafted surfaces focused on brand and product storytelling.

The team collaborates with other Stripe teams and external partners to improve the quality and consistency of Stripe brand experiences across physical and digital mediums.

About Stripe Creative Lab

Stripe Creative Lab creates breakthrough, culturally resonant, and highly crafted projects that reveal Stripe’s capabilities in surprising ways. The work is experimental, often begins with ambiguous briefs, and requires developing solutions to challenging and unfamiliar problems.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and build highly crafted, experimental digital experiences, interactive projects, and creative tools.
• Collaborate with designers, art directors, and producers to translate ambitious creative direction into technically excellent experiences.
• Contribute technical judgment to improve the quality of the work.
• Explore emerging technologies and unfamiliar technical approaches, quickly determining what is possible and how best to build it.
• Independently navigate ambiguous technical problems, moving pragmatically from early experiments to finished work.
• Build and publish standalone web experiences when appropriate.
• Identify and communicate the additional engineering support required for more complex projects.
• Experiment with hardware, physical computing, displays, sensors, embedded systems, and other technologies when projects require them.
• Collaborate with external engineers, fabricators, technical studios, and other specialists.
• Maintain high standards for performance, reliability, usability, and craft without allowing conventional technical approaches to unnecessarily constrain an idea.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant software engineering, creative technology, or creative development experience.
• Deep expertise in at least one area of creative engineering, with demonstrated curiosity and competence across adjacent technologies.
• A portfolio of technically ambitious, highly crafted work, such as experimental websites, interactive experiences, real-time graphics, games, installations, creative tools, or other unusual applications of technology.
• Strong frontend engineering fundamentals and experience independently building and shipping public-facing web experiences.
• Strong visual and interaction sensibility, with the ability to faithfully execute sophisticated creative direction and identify opportunities to improve it.
• Experience solving unfamiliar technical problems with a high degree of independence.
• Experience writing thoughtful, maintainable code and making pragmatic engineering decisions in fast-moving environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with real-time graphics, WebGL, WebGPU, Three.js, shaders, animation, generative systems, or other forms of creative coding.
• Experience working with hardware, physical computing, embedded systems, sensors, displays, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, or interactive installations.
• Familiarity with backend development, APIs, networking, cloud infrastructure, or other areas beyond frontend engineering.
• Experience collaborating with designers, artists, fabricators, creative studios, or other multidisciplinary partners.
• Experience identifying, evaluating, and directing outside technical specialists when a project extends beyond your own expertise.
• Deep curiosity about technology, design, craft, and the ways new technical capabilities can enable new forms of creative work.