Software Engineer, Code Platform
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 153000 - 376000
Posted on:
3 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figmas platform helps teams bring ideas to lifewhether youre 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. If youre excited to shape the future of design and collaboration join us!
Figma is a critical part of modern product development where design and code are core primitives in how builders create iterate and ship products. Figmas Code Platform team builds the foundational infrastructure that enables seamless translation between design code and AI-powered creation. From LLM-powered code generation to agentic design-to-code workflows were integrating AI deeply into how developers experience Figma. Our work powers products such as Make Prompt to Edit MCP and other Figma surfaces.
Our mission is to power the interoperability of design code so it can be seamless and magical for our customers while remaining ergonomic scalable and extendable for the company. As AI becomes central to how products are built in the industry Code Platform sits at the intersection of design engineering and AI enabling the next generation of creation tools.
Were 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.
Youll build AI forward systems that translate between structured design models and LLM-friendly representations and balancing deterministic solutions with AI generated solutions across latency and correctness across Figma. This is a rare opportunity to improve and evolve one of the most strategically important abstractions in the company.
What youll do at Figma:
- 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
Wed love to hear from you if you have:
- 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
While its not required its an added plus if you also have:
- 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
Pay Transparency Disclosure
If based in Figmas San Francisco or New York hub offices this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including but not limited to individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience potential impact and scope of role) market demands and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
Figma offers equity to employees as well a 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. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figmas compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Annual Base Salary Range:
$153000 - $376000 USD
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts experiences and opinions allows our employees our product and our community to flourish. 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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role participate in the interview process perform essential job functions and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation please reach out to . These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Holding interviews in an accessible location
- Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
- Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
- Changing the mode or format of interviews
To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
By applying for this job the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figmas Candidate Privacy Notice.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Figma is the leading collaborative design tool for building meaningful products. Seamlessly design, prototype, develop, and collect feedback in a single platform.
