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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.

If you're 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. Figma's Code Platform team builds the foundational infrastructure that enables seamless translation between design, code, and AI-powered creation.

Our work powers products such as AI Assistant, Make, Sites, and other Figma surfaces. This team's work will be at the precipice of powering what is possible downstream for users to easily go between design and code. Our mission is to power the interoperability of design code so it can be seamless and magical for our customers; but also ergonomic, scalable, and extendable for the company.

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. You'll work on systems that translate between HTML, JSX, structured design models, and LLM‐friendly representations, directly impacting latency, correctness, and product velocity across Figma.

This is a rare opportunity to improve and evolve one of the most strategically important abstractions in the company. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. What you'll do at Figma Design, build, and improve code design translation pipelines 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 Figma Make, AI Assistant, and Sites leads to define the long‐term product enablement 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 We'd 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 debugging performance, rendering, or pipeline latency issues Experience building complex, cross‐team platforms with multiple stakeholder groups While it's not required, it's an added plus if you also have Experience building design systems or component libraries Platform or infrastructure engineering experience (APIs, observability, SLAs) Rendering, layout, or graphics pipeline knowledge Experience with structured representations used by LLMs Pay Transparency Disclosure If based in Figma's 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. Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub): $149,000—$350,000 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 accommodations-ext@figma.com.

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 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.

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