Job description
Software Engineer, Code Platform
Company Overview
Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
Job Summary
Figma's Code Platform team builds the foundational infrastructure that enables seamless translation between design, code, and AI-powered creation. We're hiring engineers to join Code Platform to work on our core code translation infrastructure. This role will focus primarily on deep technical execution, and depending on level and experience, may also include technical leadership responsibilities such as architectural ownership, mentoring, and driving multi-quarter initiatives.
Key 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
- Design evaluation frameworks for AI-generated code 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 to define long term product enablement and build foundational infra
- 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 / Qualifications
- 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 building features that integrate LLMs or AI models into a product not just using AI tools, but shipping with them
- Experience debugging performance, rendering, or pipeline latency issues
- Experience building complex, cross-team platforms with multiple stakeholder groups
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with prompt engineering, RAG patterns, or model evaluation
- 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 component libraries
- Platform or infrastructure engineering experience (APIs, observability, SLAs)
- Rendering, layout, or graphics pipeline knowledge
Location
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Annual Base Salary Range: $153,000 - $376,000 USD
- Equity
- Competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.
- Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
