Figma

Software Engineer, Web Platform

Figma

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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