Software Engineer, Web Platform

Figma is a company dedicated to making design accessible to all, and they are seeking a Software Engineer for their Code Platform team. This role focuses on building and improving the infrastructure for code and design translation, while also offering opportunities for technical leadership and mentorship.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and improve code ↔ design translation pipelines
• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks and long-running tasks that impact product SLAs
• Improve correctness, reconciliation, and fidelity across complex design system and layout edge cases
• Build scalable serialization pipelines, internal APIs, and platform utilities
• Partner with Figma Make, AI Assistant, and Sites leads to define the long term product enablement
• Improve observability and ownership of key metrics (latency, success rate, correctness)
• Support and drive architectural direction and long-term platform strategy for a translation surface
• Mentor engineers and shape the long-term team structure

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, especially in web, platform or infrastructure engineering
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frontend fundamentals
• Deep experience with declarative UI systems (React, JSX, or similar)
• Familiarity with ASTs, code transformation, or compilation concepts
• Experience debugging performance, rendering, or pipeline latency issues
• Experience building complex, cross-team platforms with multiple stakeholder groups
• Experience building design systems or component libraries
• Platform or infrastructure engineering experience (APIs, observability, SLAs)
• Rendering, layout, or graphics pipeline knowledge
• Experience with structured representations used by LLMs