Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance, and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know projects to do, when to do them, and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.

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 .

“Opinions from all across the organization are valued and listened to , and it’s easy and encouraged to get involved with a project you’re passionate about."

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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.

Demonstrated experience as a frontend engineer building production product surfaces, with the 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.

A 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 stick.

Strong cross-functional collaboration instincts, comfortable working closely with designers, PMs, and partner engineering teams as your primary users.

6+ years of industry experience in software engineering.

$600B+ — opportunity in Thumbtack’s market home services

4.5M+ — customers in past 12 months

100M — projects started on Thumbtack

15M — 5-star reviews

$3.2B — valuation (as of June 2021)

In addition to our virtual-first model, we offer:

Recharge with PTO, in addition to 20 company-wide holidays each year, including a week-long end-of-year shutdown.

$1,000 USD/$1,400 CAD annual stipend for professional development, self care, office set-up and more. We also provide cell phone and Wi-Fi reimbursements.

All parents receive up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and birthing parents receive 8 additional weeks, for a total of 20 weeks of 100% paid parental leave (US & CAN).

12 coaching sessions and 12 therapy sessions for yourself and your dependents. We also offer one-on-one financial guidance from a financial wellness provider.

$450 USD/CAD quarterly stipend to book a pro on Thumbtack for virtual or in-person services — anything from home care services to planning a child’s birthday party and beyond.

Claude Enterprise (Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, Claude Desktop, Ask Thumbtack), OpenAI Enterprise ChatGPT & Codex, Cursor, Gemini Enterprise, Granola, Coda AI, Zoom AI Companion, Linear, and more. *Access varies based on location, team, and role.