Software Engineer, Figma

Internal Tools

$149-350k

Salary applicable to SF & NY applicants only. + Equity

React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Go
Figma
Excel
Ruby
Rust
Prometheus
Grafana
Datadog
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
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

$149-350k

Salary applicable to SF & NY applicants only. + Equity

React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Go
Figma
Excel
Ruby
Rust
Prometheus
Grafana
Datadog
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

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

  • This role is a good fit if you are a Full Stack Engineer that is passionate about multiplying our engineering efforts through automation, testing, orchestration, documentation, and productivity tools
  • 3+ years of professional experience shipping features and/or products as a full-stack developer
  • Demonstrated coding fluency with one or more programming languages in a working context, including but not limited to: Typescript/Javascript, React, Ruby, Python, Go, or Rust
  • Experience communicating and working effectively across functions to proactively drive solutions
  • Experience with crafting delightful user experiences that enable internal teams
  • Experience w/ Datadog or another observability system, like Prometheus & Grafana (open source) for debugging, monitoring, and alerting applications
  • Finally, Figma is a close-knit company with a strong culture that promotes inclusivity and collaboration, taking ambitious goals and having fun doing so. You deeply value these traits and see yourself actively contributing to it
  • We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills
  • If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways

Desirable

  • 2+ years of experience operating in a technical lead capacity
  • A growth mindset and experience investing in the learning, development, belonging, and impact of your peers
  • Experience in and a desire to teach fellow engineers through pairing, code review, and in-the-moment feedback

What the job involves

  • As a software engineer on the Internal Tools engineering team you will build an internal platform that brings joy to your end users—Figma employees
  • You will also be involved in providing guidance on how other engineering teams can build internal experiences
  • We excel by working closely with our internal customers to develop what they and Figma need
  • Whether this is collaborating on new AI strategies for Customer Support, enhancing internal engineering workflows to reduce friction, automating Sanctions and Digital Services Act (DSA) compliance, or building AI moderation platform capabilities, we have a broad scope which enables us to delight and deliver highly impactful outcomes
  • Build, document, and maintain tests, features, and infrastructure
  • Regularly communicate and document architectural designs and requirements
  • Take shared ownership of the engineering process. Every member of our team is involved from ideation to implementation
  • Break down high level goals into tasks and timeline without product and design support to achieve desired outcomes
  • Regularly collaborate with Product Support, TPMs, and other engineers on and beyond your team (or org) to plan features that reduce friction of internal processes
  • Provide thoughtful feedback to others on the team and facilitate spaces of learning, belonging, and growth
  • Help interview and recruit more talented engineers to Figma
  • Run experiments, tracking internal user behavior and engaging internal users to improve workflows and processes

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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