About the role

Role overview

As a Software Engineer on Figma’s Code Platform team, you will build the foundational infrastructure that enables seamless translation between design, code, and AI-powered creation. The role focuses on deep technical execution and may include technical leadership such as architectural ownership and mentoring depending on your level.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and improve code ↔ design translation pipelines, including AI-powered and agentic workflows
Build and iterate on LLM integrations that power code generation, design interpretation, and agentic feature surfaces
Create design evaluation frameworks for AI-generated outputs (quality, correctness, and format fidelity)
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 product leads on long-term product enablement and foundational platform infrastructure
Improve observability and ownership of key metrics (latency, success rate, correctness)
Support architectural direction and long-term platform strategy; mentor engineers and help shape team structure

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience (web, platform, or infrastructure engineering preferred)
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 building product features that integrate LLMs/AI models (shipping with them, not just using AI tools)
Experience debugging performance/latency in rendering or pipelines
Ability to build complex cross-team platforms with multiple stakeholder groups

Nice to have

Prompt engineering, RAG patterns, or model evaluation experience
Experience with code generation models or AST-level code manipulation
Prior work on agentic workflows or multi-step LLM pipelines
Experience with MCP, tool-use APIs, or AI developer ecosystems
Experience building design systems or components

About Figma

Figma is a design and collaboration platform that helps teams brainstorm, create prototypes, translate designs into code, and iterate in real time. Its platform supports modern product development by making design and code core primitives, with AI-powered workflows that accelerate creation and interoperability between design and engineering.

Software Engineer, Code Platform

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