Senior Software Engineer (Design Systems)

Thumbtack; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Health insurance

Remote-first culture

Wellness program

Camp Thumbtack

Job summary

Thumbtack is seeking a senior frontend engineer to build an AI-assisted design-to-code pipeline that spans Figma, Thumbprint components, and production frontend code. You will collaborate with designers, PMs, and partner engineering teams to evolve Thumbprint and associated tooling.

The role emphasizes TypeScript/React expertise, design-system involvement, and hands-on AI tooling experience to scale across web and mobile platforms.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Fluent in TypeScript and React.
• Strong collaboration with designers and PMs.
• Experience with design systems is welcome.
• Hands-on with AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Build the AI-assisted pipeline moving work from design to production code.
• Collaborate with Product Design, DevX, and Frontend Infrastructure.
• Evolve Thumbprint to work with agentic tooling.
• Prototype and evaluate emerging AI tooling for scalable adoption.
• Ship reusable patterns and components for cross-team use.

Skills

TypeScript

React

AI tooling fluency

Design systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Frontend pipelines

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Figma MCP

Job description

• The Design Systems team owns Thumbprint, Thumbtack’s design system used across web, iOS, and Android, plus the engineering tooling that connects design intent to shipped product code
• We’re small and senior — a design manager and two product designers in the design org, plus two engineers in Productivity Engineering
• This role covers web and AI-assisted workflows; the partner engineer covers cross-platform components and design tokens
• We partner with Developer Experience on AI tooling and Frontend Infrastructure on our web stack
• You can read more about our engineering culture on the Thumbtack Engineering Blog
• You’ll build the AI-assisted pipeline that moves product work from design to shipped code at Thumbtack: a bidirectional bridge between Figma and Thumbprint’s React components, agentic workflows that span low-fidelity exploration through production code, and a prototyping platform where designers, PMs, and engineers iterate together
• The pipeline is greenfield, and the design-to-code system you build is the team’s invention to make
• Developer Experience owns the agent and tooling foundation; Frontend Infrastructure owns the web stack — you’ll work with both as you make the design-to-code workflow first-class in each
• Design and implement AI-assisted workflows — using tools like Claude Code and Figma MCP — that move work between Figma, prototypes, and our production frontend codebase
• Work as the engineering counterpart to Product Design — pairing on patterns, components, and workflows that make their work compose into shipped product
• Evolve Thumbprint, our design system, so it composes cleanly with agentic tooling: machine-readable documentation, MCP-friendly component metadata, and tight integration with the prototyping platform
• Partner with Developer Experience on the AI agent and tooling foundation, and with Frontend Infrastructure on our web stack, so this work builds on top of theirs rather than duplicating it
• Engage the engineers and designers who use what you build: run office hours, prioritize their feedback, and ship the highest-impact improvements to how product teams move from idea to production
• Prototype and evaluate emerging AI development tooling, and bring informed recommendations on what to adopt and scale at Thumbtack

Benefits

• Parental leave
• Health insurance
• Community matters | Sure, our ways of connecting have changed. But we haven’t missed a beat, from virtual concerts to “TTversary” celebrations to weekly catch-ups
• Always be improving | We bring out the best in our colleagues — and our product — by pushing each beyond what we believe we’re capable of. We give honest feedback, even when it’s hard
• Wellness is a way of life | We promote balance with generous PTO and company-wide holidays — and find our centers every Wellness Wednesday with yoga featuring a Thumbtack pro
• A worthy mission | In a world where tech is often seen as eroding good jobs, we’re helping small business owners thrive. Our product makes entrepreneurship accessible to everyone
• Driven by our values | Our values are the compass by which we make all our decisions. Each one matters: Lead with why, Make it count, Own it, Choose teamwork, and Say what you mean
• Plus, amazing benefits | All the benefits you’d expect, plus a few more: generous parental and fertility benefits, $1800 for Thumbtack services per year and a $1200 remote work stipend
• Virtual-first working model coupled with quarterly in-person events and Camp Thumbtack
• 20+ company-wide holidays including two week-long shutdowns
• Libraries (collaborative workspaces) in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Toronto, and Manila
• Cell phone and WiFi reimbursements
• Subscriptions and Employee Assistance Program for mental health and well-being

Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, and considered opinions about their limits, where they help, and how to scale them beyond personal useA track record of building tools and infrastructure that other engineers or non-engineers actually adopted, with judgment about onboarding, documentation, and the feedback loops that make adoption stickDemonstrated experience as a frontend engineer building production product surfaces, with the systems-thinking instincts to reason about tooling, workflows, and platforms as well as featuresDesign system experience is welcome but not required; front-end engineering and AI tooling fluency are the load-bearing skills6+ years of industry experience in software engineeringDeep hands-on fluency with the modern web stack: TypeScript, React, and the build, test, and deploy tools that surround themStrong cross-functional collaboration instincts, comfortable working closely with designers, PMs, and partner engineering teams as your primary users