Frontend Engineer, Design Systems

About this role

Build and evolve Helm, Stripe’s shared design system for stripe.com. You’ll create reusable frontend components and patterns, balancing visual quality with accessibility, performance, responsive behavior, and the needs of teams adopting the system.

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

Web Presence and Platform (WPP), Design Systems pod

Stack

What you'll do

• Build polished, accessible, performant React components and patterns
• Partner with designers and engineers on component APIs, behavior, responsive states, and tokens
• Maintain design–code parity with documentation, accessibility and visual-regression testing, and production validation
• Guide teams on composing, extending, or locally implementing system capabilities
• Improve Helm’s adoption through guidance, examples, and tooling

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of frontend or design engineering experience
• Experience building and maintaining a production design system or shared component library
• Proficiency with React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• Regular use of AI-assisted development tools, with careful validation of output
• Experience designing flexible component APIs, primitives, tokens, and composition models
• Strong visual and interaction-design judgment and cross-functional communication

Nice to have

• Experience with expressive, brand-forward web experiences
• Familiarity with CMS-driven content, localization, or large global websites
• Experience connecting design and code, such as Figma libraries, Code Connect, or visual-regression testing
• Experience migrating consumers between design systems while maintaining compatibility

Benefits

• Equity
• Company bonus
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Wellness stipends