Job description
Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!
At Figma, Engineering is a key part of our super power to build the industry-leading products that revolutionized collaborative design and production. As our business grows rapidly, we’re looking for versatile and motivated Software Engineers to help us push the boundaries of product development! Whether you’re building core design tools, enhancing developer workflows, launching entirely new products, or scaling user growth, you’ll have a hand in shaping the future of how teams create together.
You’ll work on complex technical challenges—from crafting deeply sophisticated professional tool features, to performance optimization in real-time collaborative systems, to design intuitive interfaces and launching 0->1 products. Our engineers are highly cross-functional, working closely with product, design, research, data, and marketing to deliver best-in-class experiences.
This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What you’ll do at Figma:
- Build, launch, and iterate on user-facing features and core product experiences across Figma’s design, developer, and collaboration tools.
- Contribute to both greenfield product development and improvements to established products, with a focus on user experience craft, architecture quality and performance.
- Create extensible and scalable systems and abstractions to support multiple Figma products and unlock innovation across teams.
- Own projects end-to-end, from ideation through implementation to post-launch iteration.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners across product, design, research, and marketing to shape the product roadmap and strategy.
- Participate in code reviews, pairing, design crits, and mentoring to foster a culture of learning and craftsmanship.
- Dedication to engineering craft: you are proud of making well polished products through consistent and scalable technical patterns.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- proven experience shipping user-facing features or products as a full-stack developer.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., TypeScript, React, C++, Python, Ruby, Go, Java, Objective-C, Rust).
- A strong product sense with a desire to deeply understand users and deliver value through clean, performant code.
- Experience working collaboratively in fast-paced, cross-functional teams.
While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
Experience as a tech lead or project lead in delivering large-scale projects or 0->1 product launches.
Familiarity with C++/WebAssembly in user-facing applications.
Experience with one or more of the following specialized areas:
- Growth engineering
- Developer tooling
- Design systems
- Prototype systems
- Web tooling
- Computational geometry
Background in iOS/Android development or Ruby-based backends.
A passion for mentoring peers and helping shape engineering culture.
At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):
$149,000—$350,000 USD
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status , or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to [email protected]. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Holding interviews in an accessible location
- Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
- Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
- Changing the mode or format of interviews
To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma’s Candidate Privacy Notice.
