# Software Engineer, Web Platform

**Company:** [Figma](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/figma)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $149k – $350k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Jsx, Asts, HTML
**Posted:** 2026-01-13

> Build core infrastructure for translating between design models, HTML/JSX, and AI representations at Figma's Code Platform. Requires 5+ years experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and performance optimization.

## Job Description

## What you'll do
- 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

## Nice-to-haves
- 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

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