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# Frontend Engineer, Design Systems

- **Company:** Stripe, Inc.
- **Location:** South Burlington, VT, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** HTML, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Systems Engineering, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Design of User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, Regression Testing, Software Engineering, TypeScript, ReactJS, Build Management, Stripe, Maintaining Code, Figma, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/frontend-engineer-design-systems-south-burlington-vt--b5d737b2-2085-4264-83a6-24c7a11a5c40

## About the Role

User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), User Interface Design, Systems Engineering, Startup, Revenue Growth, Customer Support/Service, System Operations, Business Strategy, Operational Strategy, Technical/Engineering Design, * 5+ years of relevant frontend or design engineering experience building production web experiences or the shared systems and tooling behind them

 * Experience building and maintaining a production design system or shared component library, including evolving it through real-world use
 * Proficiency with React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, with experience taking interactive, responsive work from design through production
 * Experience using AI-assisted development tools as a regular part of software engineering work, with sound judgment about validating their output and maintaining code, product, and security quality
 * Experience designing flexible component APIs, primitives, tokens, and composition models that give skilled practitioners meaningful control while preserving accessibility and maintainability
 * Strong visual and interaction-design judgment, along with the communication skills to collaborate with experienced designers and engineers on ambiguous system-level tradeoffs

Preferred qualifications

 * Experience building expressive, brand-forward web experiences where consistency must coexist with differentiated art direction
 * Familiarity with CMS-driven experiences, structured content, localization, or other constraints involved in supporting a large global website
 * Experience with tools and practices that connect design and code, such as Figma libraries, design tokens, Code Connect, component documentation, or visual-regression testing
 * Experience migrating consumers between design systems or evolving shared components while maintaining compatibility across existing production surfaces

## Description

* Design and build polished, accessible, and performant React components and patterns that express Stripe's visual language across stripe.com
 * Partner closely with designers and engineers to shape component behavior, APIs, responsive states, interaction details, and design-token architecture
 * Maintain a high bar for design-code parity and component quality through documentation, accessibility and visual-regression testing, production validation, and in-context review
 * Help workstream teams decide when to compose existing capabilities, extend the system, or keep an implementation local, and lead the upstreaming of broadly reusable work
 * Improve how designers, engineers, content authors, and agents discover, understand, and adopt Helm through clear guidance, examples, tooling, and responsive collaboration