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# Software Engineer, Design Systems

- **Company:** Thumbtack, Inc.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $210,800.0 - $272,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cursor, Software Engineering, TypeScript, ReactJS, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b928d7cb-fed7-4c89-b16b-eef235bdb117

## About the Role

* 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.



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