Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

The role

You will build an AI-assisted pipeline that moves product work from design to shipped code. This involves creating bidirectional bridges between Figma and React components and developing agentic workflows.

What you will do

• Design and implement AI-assisted workflows using tools like Claude Code and Figma MCP.
• Work as the engineering counterpart to Product Design on patterns, components, and workflows.
• Evolve Thumbprint design system to compose with agentic tooling.
• Partner with Developer Experience and Frontend Infrastructure teams.
• Engage engineers and designers through office hours and feedback prioritization.
• Prototype and evaluate emerging AI development tooling.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated experience as a frontend engineer building production product surfaces.
• Deep hands-on fluency with TypeScript, React, and build, test, and deploy tools.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex.
• Track record of building tools and infrastructure that others adopted.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration instincts.
• 6+ years of industry experience in software engineering.

Nice to have

• Design system experience

About the company

Thumbtack is an app used to take care of and improve homes through personalized guidance and AI tools. It connects homeowners with a community of 300,000 local service businesses.