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Salary: USD 179,400 - 272,800 / annual
Thumbtack is a home services marketplace that helps millions of homeowners find local service professionals and manage home projects. 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.
You will build the AI-assisted pipeline that moves product work from design to shipped code at Thumbtack. This includes a bidirectional bridge between Figma and Thumbprint's React components, agentic workflows spanning low-fidelity exploration through production code, and a prototyping platform where designers, PMs, and engineers iterate together. The pipeline is greenfield, and you will invent the design-to-code system. You'll work with Developer Experience (which owns the agent and tooling foundation) and Frontend Infrastructure (which owns the web stack).
Key responsibilities:
- Design and implement AI-assisted workflows using tools like Claude Code and Figma MCP that move work between Figma, prototypes, and the production frontend codebase.
- Work as the engineering counterpart to Product Design, pairing on patterns, components, and workflows that compose into shipped product.
- Evolve Thumbprint 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 and Frontend Infrastructure so this work builds on top of theirs rather than duplicating it.
- Engage engineers and designers who use what you build: run office hours, prioritize feedback, and ship high-impact improvements to how product teams move from idea to production.
- Prototype and evaluate emerging AI development tooling, bringing informed recommendations on what to adopt and scale.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
- Demonstrated experience as a frontend engineer building production product surfaces, with systems-thinking instincts to reason about tooling, workflows, and platforms as well as features.
- Deep hands-on fluency with the modern web stack: TypeScript, React, and the build, test, and deploy tools that surround them.
- 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 use.
- Design system experience is welcome but not required; front-end engineering and AI tooling fluency are the load-bearing skills.
- Track record of building tools and infrastructure that other engineers or non-engineers actually adopted, with judgment about onboarding, documentation, and feedback loops that make adoption stick.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration instincts, comfortable working closely with designers, PMs, and partner engineering teams as primary users.
