Software Engineer, Figma

• At least 4+ years experience building web frontend products with a passion for adopting best practices in testing and observability frameworks
• Experience working with client-side frontend technologies like React, testing frameworks like Jasmine/Jest/Playwright, observability systems for error reporting, real-time telemetry and analytics logging, build tools like Bazel and CI/CD frameworks, cloud services like AWS, and code coverage and performance/runtime profiling 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, data science, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders beyond your team (or org) to plan features and break down high level goals into tasks and timelines
• Demonstrated unwavering commitment for improving product quality by building tools and frameworks for engineers

Desirable

• The Client Platform team’s mission is to empower Figma’s client developers to rapidly adopt best practices, create features, and own performance and quality end-to-end
• Figma’s browser-based products like Figma Design and FigJam are built on a unique client-side stack that integrates the core engine built with C++/WebAssembly with a modern Web stack
• This team is building automated client testing and observability frameworks that are used by Figma engineers at every stage of product development
• This blog post is an example of how we are implementing novel solutions for addressing Figma’s unique challenges
• Enable Figma engineers to ship high quality and performant code by building testing and benchmarking frameworks that catch issues before they reach our users
• Develop observability tooling to detect and root cause issues in production quickly
• Collaborate with engineering teams across the company to define goals around automated testing, performance benchmarking (CPU, memory, FPS), and operational health
• Provide engineering teams visibility into their quality and performance to maintain / improve Figma's high bar for product excellence
• Be a part of a unique engineering culture that fosters learning, belonging and impact