Software Engineer, Code Platform
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.
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Software Engineer, Code Platform at Figma in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 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.
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- 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)
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