Figma is looking to hire Software Engineers to help push the boundaries of product development as their business grows rapidly. They need engineers to build, launch, and iterate on user-facing features and core product experiences across their design, developer, and collaboration tools, contributing to both new and established products with a focus on user experience, architecture, and performance.
Requirements
- proven experience shipping user-facing features or products as a full-stack developer.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., TypeScript, React, C++, Python, Ruby, Go, Java, Objective-C, Rust).
- A strong product sense with a desire to deeply understand users and deliver value through clean, performant code.
- Experience working collaboratively in fast-paced, cross-functional teams.
- Experience as a tech lead or project lead in delivering large-scale projects or 0->1 product launches.
- Familiarity with C++/WebAssembly in user-facing applications.
- Experience with one or more of the following specialized areas: Growth engineering, Developer tooling, Design systems, Prototype systems, Web tooling, Computational geometry.
Responsibilities
- Build, launch, and iterate on user-facing features and core product experiences across Figma's design, developer, and collaboration tools.
- Contribute to both greenfield product development and improvements to established products, with a focus on user experience craft, architecture quality and performance.
- Create extensible and scalable systems and abstractions to support multiple Figma products and unlock innovation across teams.
- Own projects end-to-end, from ideation through implementation to post-launch iteration.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners across product, design, research, and marketing to shape the product roadmap and strategy.
- Participate in code reviews, pairing, design crits, and mentoring to foster a culture of learning and craftsmanship.
- Dedication to engineering craft: you are proud of making well polished products through consistent and scalable technical patterns.
Other
- This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
- At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills.
- If based in Figma's San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
- Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.
- Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
