Software Engineer, Figma

• At least 2+ years of professional experience shipping features or products with specialization in web frontend frameworks or C++/Wasm
• Experience working on game engines, client side technologies and platforms, API products/integrations, and/or developer tools
• Demonstrated coding fluency with one or more programming languages in a working context, including but not limited to: Typescript/Javascript, C++, React, Ruby, Java, Python, Go, or Rust
• Experience communicating and collaborating regularly and effectively with designers, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders beyond your team (or org) to plan features and break down high level goals into tasks and timelines,
• A growth mindset and experience investing in the learning, development, belonging, and impact of your peers

Desirable

• Our Creation Engine teams work on some of the core technologies that power our real time, browser-based Figma Design and FigJam products
• These teams work mostly (but not exclusively) on client-side code that runs in the browser. Under the hood, Figma shares a lot of similarities to a game engine
• We develop this C++/WebAssembly engine to ensure internal and external developers can rapidly build new products and features that are fast and reliable by default
• We're always looking for ways to make our platform more extensible, more performant, less resource intensive, and more reliable. We own areas such as our in-memory data model (SceneGraph), renderer, multiplayer client/server protocols, and plugins and REST API
• Figma is a highly collaborative organization and most projects are owned by small teams of 2-3 people. You’ll form strong relationships with product managers and designers, and can expect to partner regularly with engineers and leaders beyond your immediate team
• We strive to foster an inclusive culture that promotes equity and belonging, and use the following values to guide how we work together: communicate early and often, lift your team, focus on craftsmanship, and prioritize impact
• In 30 days, you will…
• Be paired with an onboarding buddy on your team who will help you ramp in our codebase and get to know Figma. You’ll move from starter tasks meant to familiarize you with our workflows to joining your teammates on larger projects
• Get to know your Figmates across the company via team building activities, participating in our Give a Fig philanthropy efforts, joining one of our Employee Resource Groups, creating something amazing during Maker Week, or having hangs over Zoom (or in person once we’re back in one of our San Francisco or New York hubs)
• In 60 days, you will…
• Work closely with teammates and partners in Engineering, Product, Design, Marketing, User Research, and Data Science to build new features and achieve roadmap goals. We prioritize collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, so you won’t operate in silos
• Craft performance objectives with your manager that align to company priorities and career development opportunities
• Help grow Figma by interviewing candidates for teams across the Engineering organization
• In 90 days(and beyond), you will…
• Be a mentor and provide thoughtful feedback to your peers, and benefit from strong personal and professional mentorship opportunity yourself
• Contribute to org-wide initiatives like new hire onboarding, developing interview processes, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts
• Continue ramping and learning. The technical challenges you'll tackle on a Creation Engine team are unique, fun, ambitious, and ever-evolving
• Modularizing our C++/Wasm engine to support new features in Figma Design and FigJam, as well as unlocking the development of future products
• Extending our multiplayer protocol to enable more advanced editing and collaboration modes across files
• Creating frameworks to maintain performance and memory standards across our products —we want to keep pushing the limits of what it's possible to create in a browser while maintaining a highly performant UX
• Improving our file load times by dynamically loading needed content, optimizing our client-server protocols, and exploring ways to allow users to interact with files earlier
• Optimizing our renderer in order to increase frame rate during periods of heavy interaction with FigJam
• Providing rich abstractions and APIs between our React/Typescript and C++/Wasm engine
• Expanding the way our users can extend the functionality of our products through plugins and widgets, our REST API, as well through new ML-powered extensibility features

• An initial non-technical call with a recruiter
• A live practical technical screen with an engineer using the programming language of your choice
• A video-based conversation with the manager of your potential team
• A fully virtual “onsite” interview with both technical/coding and non-technical/discussion-based areas of focus