Stripe

Frontend engineer in UI platform

In short

Frontend engineer role at Stripe, building and maintaining the Sail design system and components used across Stripe's Dashboard and other products. The job involves end-to-end ownership of frontend projects, partnering with designers and product engineers, and improving accessibility, performance, and developer experience of the design system. Requires 2+ years of frontend engineering experience and fluency with AI-assisted/agentic development tools; hybrid work in Barcelona with at least 50% office time expected.

About
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.
Responsibilities
•Take end-to-end ownership of software projects, independently scoping problems and carrying solutions through design, implementation, testing, and rollout
•Build and maintain accessible, performant, and well-tested components, themes, and frontend APIs used across Stripe
•Build tooling, documentation, and automated quality checks that help engineers and AI coding agents use Sail effectively and meet Stripe's UI quality bar
•Partner with product designers and engineers to understand their needs and turn recurring UI patterns into reusable design-system capabilities
•Help evolve the visual language of Stripe's Dashboard while modernizing its underlying codebase and migrating legacy UI patterns
•Improve the accessibility, internationalization, observability, performance, reliability, and developer experience of the design system
•Contribute thoughtful code reviews, technical discussions, and documentation that improve the quality of the team's work
Requirements
•Fluency in using AI-assisted and agentic development tools as part of day-to-day software engineering, including critically reviewing, validating, and improving generated code
•2+ years of professional frontend engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience, building, shipping, and debugging web applications
•Strong knowledge of modern frontend technologies and frameworks, including browser fundamentals, responsive design, and accessibility
•Ability to independently scope and deliver open-ended frontend projects, making practical technical and product tradeoffs with limited oversight
•Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with attention to testing, maintainability, and the quality of the resulting user experience
•Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with designers, product engineers, and other partners
Nice to have
•Experience working on a design system, frontend platform, or shared component library
•Experience with developer tooling such as build tools, package managers, codemods, lint rules, or large monorepos
•Experience building tools, integrations, or automated evaluation and quality systems for AI coding agents
•Experience using documentation, developer feedback, or adoption data to improve a developer-facing product
Conditions
Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration.
The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €61,400 - €92,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and specific location.
Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant's location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

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