Design Engineer, Brand Studio

About this role

Build and ship polished digital experiences, interactive projects, and creative tools for Stripe’s Brand Studio and Creative Lab. The work combines rapid prototyping and frontend engineering with experimental technology, and may include physical computing or installations.

About the company

Stripe provides payment infrastructure and financial tools that help businesses accept payments, manage subscriptions, and move money globally. It serves startups through large enterprises with APIs for online and in-person commerce.

The team

Brand Studio and Stripe Creative Lab

Stack

What you'll do

• Prototype and build experimental digital experiences, interactive projects, and creative tools
• Collaborate with designers and art directors to bring creative concepts to life
• Explore unfamiliar technologies and solve ambiguous technical problems independently
• Build and publish standalone web experiences
• Experiment with hardware, sensors, displays, and physical computing
• Partner with external engineers, fabricators, and technical specialists
• Maintain high standards for performance, reliability, usability, and craft

What we're looking for

• 6+ years of software engineering, creative technology, or creative development experience
• Deep expertise in at least one area of creative engineering
• Portfolio of technically ambitious, highly crafted work
• Strong frontend fundamentals and experience shipping public-facing web experiences
• Strong visual and interaction sensibility
• Ability to solve unfamiliar problems independently
• Write maintainable code and make pragmatic engineering decisions

Nice to have

• Realtime graphics, creative coding, shaders, animation, or generative systems
• Hardware, embedded systems, sensors, or interactive installations experience
• Backend, API, networking, or cloud infrastructure familiarity
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary creative partners