Frontend Software Engineer, Figma

• Have at least 3+ years of professional experience shipping features or products as a frontend/full-stack developer
• Have worked on design systems, or other platform projects with other engineers as your customers
• Have demonstrated fluency with a mainstream JS framework (React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, etc)
• Deeply care about visual design craft, and are excited to help others level up their visual and interaction execution
• Have proactive communication skills and a desire to work in a collaborative environment
• Have an interest in mentorship, learning from others, and digging into new challenges

Desirable

• Figma is building out our Accessibility and Design System team, to own our core UI components and how Figma uses them
• Given that this is still a new team, there’s a huge opportunity to shape this team and function for years to come
• We’re particularly looking for folks with strong frontend coding skills to help level up Figma’s frontend development
• In this role, you’ll drive systematic quality improvements across Figma’s web code, making Figma more accessible to use with assistive technologies and making Figma’s UX more consistent
• You’ll also help many teams build high quality interfaces, and focus on improving the engineering velocity of others working with UI
• You’ll work quite closely with designers focused on our design system, the design team at large, PMs, and other engineering leaders whose team’s work with design systems
• Help develop our internal design system, which is still very new
• Help our internal design system become well adopted, well used, and well loved
• Work cross-functionally with design, product management, and engineering peers
• Work with partner teams to determine what tools they need to build and maintain accessible experiences
• Consistently iterate on the tools and processes supporting web engineers to make the developer experience better
• Advise on our roadmap for design system features in Figma - e.g. our support for components, styles, etc - and play a key part in trialing new features
• Implement accessibility frameworks that are at the core of all Figma UX to bring great UX to ALL users
• Build and document reusable components to bring a high degree of craft to Figma’s UI
• Building a testing framework teams use to ensure compliance with accessibility guidelines
• Take part in creating the team’s roadmap, balancing new projects with leveraged improvements (both addressing technical debt and user facing improvements)