Software Engineer, Figma

Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
iOS
Android
C++
C
Senior level
London

1-3 days a week in office

Figma

Design platform for product teams

Be an early applicant

Figma

Design platform for product teams

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
iOS
Android
C++
C
Senior level
London

1-3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Company mission

Figma's mission is to help teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years of experience shipping user-facing features or products as a full-stack developer
  • Demonstrated strong fluency with React & Typescript
  • Experience communicating and working across functions to proactively drive solutions

Desirable

  • Experience writing C++ (or related languages such as Objective C or C) in a user-facing context (e.g. gaming, native applications)
  • Experience in and a desire to teach fellow engineers through pairing, code review, and in-the-moment feedback
  • Experience building for mobile (iOS or Android)
  • 2+ years of experience operating in a technical lead capacity

What the job involves

  • At Figma we truly believe that design does not end in Figma or with your designer, it’s just one part
  • Design encompass everything that goes into the product eventually shipped to your customers
  • Whether that is the code you write to tie it all together, your CI/CD infrastructure that gives you confidence that your products work as expected, or the documentation written to keep everyone on the same page
  • The developer tools pillar at Figma is responsible for the development lifecycle of this design process and the handoff between designers and developers
  • Our goal is to enable frontend engineers to move (much) faster, spending less time on mundane tasks, and most importantly enable them to deliver the highest quality products to their end users
  • In 2023, we launched Dev Mode, a suite of features that gives developers everything they need to navigate design files and transform designs into code
  • With Dev Mode, designers and developers stay in sync, making sure important details aren’t lost in the handoff process
  • The team partners with other product and engineering teams to ensure Figma continues to push the boundaries of collaboration between design and engineering
  • Looking to the future, we have strive to go beyond design handoff, further accelerating front end development
  • Build and evolve Dev Mode, Figma’s leading tool for dev/design collaboration
  • Take part in building new 0→1 products within the developer tools space
  • Collaborate with designers, PMs, and other engineers craft high quality products
  • Be a mentor to, and be mentored by, exceptional peers across engineering, product & design
  • Build strong personal connections with your teammates and help shape Figma’s culture

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Figma is a web-based design platform that helps cross-functional teams of designers, project managers, and developers easily collaborate on product design projects. Its standout feature, Multiplayer mode, is like Google Docs for design, letting team members collaborate in real-time on project files that are hosted in the cloud.

Founded in 2012, Figma quickly established itself among its competitors in the sector and achieved a valuation exceeding $10 billion in 2021, boosted by a trend towards remote work. Its acquistion by Adobe for twice that amount just a year later raised eyebrows, but is a testament to the huge potential of this company and its product.

Thousands of industry-leading companies such as AirBnB, Dropbox, GitHub and Microsoft use Figma to scale their design efforts easily across distributed teams. Adobe has committed to leaving Figma autonomous going forward, and Figma will benefit from Adobe's digital imaging and AI tech in its product development.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

97% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

May 2024

$415.7m

SERIES F

Jan 2022

$0.5m

SERIES E

Total funding: $749.1m

Company benefits

  • Equity
  • Health, Dental, & Vision
  • Retirement with company contribution
  • Parental leave & fertility support
  • Mental health and wellness benefits
  • Generous PTO
  • Company recharge days
  • Learning & development stipend
  • Work from home stipend
  • Cell phone reimbursement

Company values

  • Build community
  • Run with it
  • Love your craft
  • Grow as you go

Company HQ

Union Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Previous Research Assistant at Microsoft for 1 year. Spent 2.5 years at Brown University pursuing a CS/Math degree, dropping out with the support of the Thiel Fellowship, when he earnt a grant of $100,000 to pursue entrepreneurial projects.

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