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CSS Engineer — UI Platform

HybridFull-timeSan Francisco / New York·$150k – $210k / yr

About the Role

The UI Platform team at Figma builds the internal systems that every product team relies on — from our design token pipeline to our layout primitives to our CSS architecture. We're looking for an engineer who thinks deeply about CSS and wants to define how a design tool's own interface is built.

You'll own hard CSS problems: layout at extreme scales, theming across light/dark/high-contrast modes, responsive design for a desktop-class web app, and performance optimisation for a rendering-heavy interface.

Requirements

  • Expert-level CSS — you can explain exactly why a layout breaks in edge cases
  • Experience with CSS custom properties, container queries, and modern layout
  • Strong TypeScript skills
  • 3+ years of frontend engineering experience
  • Passion for web performance — Core Web Vitals, painting, compositing

Nice to Have

  • Experience with CSS Houdini or paint worklets
  • Experience building tools or devtools for other engineers

Skills

CSSFrontendTypeScriptDesign SystemsPerformance

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