Software Engineer - Design Systems

Figma is creating our first design systems team, to own our core UI components and how Figma uses them. Given that this is a brand new team, there's a huge opportunity to shape this team and function for years to come. We're particularly looking for engineers who have past experience as a technical leader in the design systems space to bring experience to the team.
In this role, you'll drive systematic quality improvements across Figma's web code, making Figma more accessible to use with assistive technologies and even supporting a large visual refresh of Figma. You'll also help many teams build high quality interfaces, and focus on improving the engineering velocity of others working with UI. You'll work quite closely with designers focused on our design system , the design team at large, PMs, and other engineering leaders whose team's work with design systems.
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:
  
  • Mentor and up level the work of other engineers
  • Help our internal design system become well adopted, well used, and well loved
  • Work cross-functionally with design, product management, and engineering peers
  • Consistently iterate on the tools and processes supporting web engineers to make the developer experience better
  • Advise on our roadmap for design system features in Figma - e.g. our support for components, styles, etc - and play a key part in trialing new features
  
  Some projects you could work on:
  
  • Build and document reusable components to bring a high degree of craft to Figma's UI
  • Iterate on and spread a system of semantic tokens for Typography, Spacing, Sizing, and Motion
  • Take part in creating the team's roadmap, balancing new projects with leveraged improvements (both addressing technical debt and user facing improvements)
  • Drive a visual refresh across Figma's products
  
  We'd love to hear from you if you:
  
  • Have e xperience as a technical leader in the design systems space, promoting technical excellence, spreading best practices between teams, and guiding the team towards the most impactful work
  • D eeply care about visual design craft, and are excited to help others level up their visual and interaction execution
  • Have a t least 8+ years of professional experience shipping features or products as a full-stack developer, and/or operating in a tech lead capacity
  • Have d emonstrated fluency with Typescript/Javascript, React, and CSS
  • Have p roactive communication skills and a desire to work in a collaborative environment
  • Have a n interest in mentorship, learning from others, and digging into new challenges
  • Have a n inclusive approach towards building features, solving problems, investing in culture, and growing teams
  
  At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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