Software Engineer, Figma

• 4+ years of professional experience building and shipping user-facing features and products, or platforms that power multiple features
• Strong ability to understand user experiences and product requirements and translate into high quality technical solutions
• Deep understanding of systems and proven ability to solve problems without known solutions or creates new architecture that solves multiple problems within complex systems
• Demonstrated fluency with one or more programming languages, including: Typescript/Javascript, React, C++, Python, Java, Objective-C, Go, or Rust
• Excellent technical communication and relationship-building skills. The ability to achieve successful outcomes with partners ranging from interns to executives
• A growth mindset and experience investing in the learning, development, belonging, and impact of your peers

Desirable

• Within the Figma Editor, Figma’s industry-leading collaborative design product, Design Systems is one of the most critical features that enables teams to scale their designs
• We’re not a traditional design systems team as we don’t work on Figma’s internal design systems, but rather build the core design systems product for Figma’s end customers
• Our team is a foundational part of Figma, and we're heavily investing in several new strategic initiatives this coming year
• Every day, our users leverage design systems to create, share and reuse design elements, in order to ensure design consistency across their brand and products and accelerate a designer’s workflow
• The Design Systems team is responsible for providing powerful features and delightful user experiences for the life cycle of building, managing and consuming design systems
• Design Systems is a full stack product, hence it fully leverages the Figma Editor’s technical stack: everything you see on the canvas in the Figma Editor uses C++, which compiles to WebAssembly to run in the browser and offer more control over performance, memory management, and rendering
• We use Typescript and React/Redux for the UI around the canvas, where key elements like the properties panel, toolbar, and modals live
• Typescript gives us type checking capability, more guardrails around code correctness, and allows us to generate HTML and CSS in order to take advantage of more standard UI patterns
• We have a service-oriented architecture and use Ruby/Sinatra, Go, and Rust on the backend for Figma’s main API server
• Professional experience with these languages and technologies is not a requirement
• We encourage candidates to use the programming language that they’re most comfortable with during interviews—new hires will be ramped in our codebase during onboarding
• Figma is a highly collaborative organization
• 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
• Building new features in a real time, multiplayer system with a complex data model that enables collaboration across files
• Designing large-scale application architecture and state management
• Solving for performance and memory optimizations—we want to keep pushing the limits of what is possible to create in a browser while maintaining a highly performant UX
• Extending and scaling the Editor and full stack system behind our design system features, enabling teams to build best-in-class design systems that work well with production components