Software Engineer, Web Platform
Figma
about 1 month ago
New York, NY, USA or San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior / Mid Level
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$149k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and improve code ↔ design translation pipelines.
- Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks and long-running tasks.
- Improve correctness, reconciliation, and fidelity across design systems.
- Build scalable serialization pipelines, internal APIs, and platform utilities.
- Partner with product leads to define long-term product enablement.
- Improve observability and ownership of key metrics.
- Support and drive architectural direction and long-term platform strategy.
- Mentor engineers and shape the long-term team structure.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, especially in web or platform engineering.
- Strong TypeScript/JavaScript and modern frontend fundamentals.
- Deep experience with declarative UI systems like React or JSX.
- Familiarity with ASTs, code transformation, or compilation concepts.
- Experience debugging performance, rendering, or pipeline latency issues.
- Experience building complex, cross-team platforms.
Benefits
- Equity options for employees.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Retirement plan with company contribution.
- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support.
- Mental health and wellness benefits.
- Generous PTO and company recharge days.
- Learning and development stipend.
- Work from home stipend and cell phone reimbursement.
Tech Stack
JavaScriptReactTypeScript
Categories
BackendFrontendFull Stack