Software Engineer, Figma

Figfile Platform

$149-350k

TypeScript
Go
Figma
Ruby
Rust
Mid and Senior level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

1-3 days a week in office

Figma

Design platform for product teams

Job no longer available

Figma

Design platform for product teams

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Job no longer available

$149-350k

TypeScript
Go
Figma
Ruby
Rust
Mid and Senior level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

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

  • Ideal candidates will have experience working in large-scale cloud deployments and implementing scalable patterns
  • 4+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems
  • Proven track record of identifying opportunities for and successfully shipping high-quality products in high growth environments
  • Excellent technical communication skills and experience working across multiple teams and functions
  • Experience mentoring other engineers and promoting a collaborative team culture
  • Have excellent problem solving skills. You use a systematic and thorough approach. You think from first principles and have a bias for action
  • You are driven by impact. You are willing to work on grungy problems if they have a high impact on the business or the health of the infrastructure
  • Care deeply about the quality of the software / systems you build. You have an artisan mentality and are always looking to improve your craft. At the same time you are able to strike the right balance between idealism and pragmatism

Desirable

  • Working in a multi-language environment. We own services written in Rust, Ruby, TypeScript, Go, Cloud infrastructure
  • 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

What the job involves

  • The FigFile Platform team is responsible for the backend services storing and synchronizing Figma Design and FigJam files
  • We are perhaps best known for operating the Multiplayer service, which powers the low-latency collaboration in Figma's editors
  • We’re also responsible for Figma’s file abstractions, including the File object, images, and videos
  • And core infrastructure abstractions like content storage (S3, Dynamo), and APIs internal systems used to access Figma file data
  • As a part of our team, you'll play a pivotal role in providing a seamless experience for both our internal and external developers, ensuring they can interact with Figma files effortlessly
  • We have many large, challenging projects ahead, and are looking for engineers with strong distributed systems experience, who have operated mission critical "online" systems at substantial scale. \
  • Work with amazing engineers, building infra that makes working with FigFiles fast, easy, and secure
  • Work with engineers across the company to build innovative new features that operate at scale
  • Design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure
  • Engage with stakeholders to understand their needs and work with them to figure out what we should be building next to serve our customers
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
  • Help debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

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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