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!
As a Web Developer at Figma, you will play a vital role in building and maintaining our web platform. You’ll be responsible for working with a multi-functional team of designers, marketers, data scientists, and engineers to develop and maintain Figma’s marketing site, designsystems.com, and event sites. You will be working with a variety of modern web technologies including React, NextJS, Gatsby, Typescript, GraphQL, headless CMS (Sanity/Contentful) and other NodeJS based frameworks. Your role will also include collaborating on OKR planning, roadmapping, onboarding new team members, and leading vendor relationships.
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:
- Be a core contributor to the back-end and front-end development, optimization, and infrastructure of the Figma marketing website
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Growth, Brand, and SEO teams to ensure reliable, performant, accessible, and secure sites
- Design and implement scalable web architecture and systems in partnership with our Security and Infrastructure Engineering teams
- Act as a bridge between the marketing web team and our security and infrastructure groups — surfacing needs, sharing context, and facilitating cross-functional improvements through implementation and thorough documentation
- Lead projects end-to-end—maintaining timelines, stakeholder expectations, ticket triaging, and regularly presenting with teammates and leadership
- Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers on the team
- Mentor team members, support new hires during onboarding, and provide technical guidance to technical and non-technical collaborators
- Create and maintain comprehensive testing strategies and make recommendations for the latest web technologies and improvements
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- 5+ years of development experience using React, Node.js HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Typescript
- 3+ years of development experience in frameworks (NextJS, Gatsby), and headless content management systems (Sanity, Contentful)
- Experience with QA and testing, server rendered and statically generated sites
- Understanding of site security, database operation/management, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD strategy and deployment processes
- Experience with caching and web optimization techniques while using Agile development methodologies
While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
- Demonstrable understanding of conversion rate optimization standard methodologies, using A/B testing to achieve results
- Experience working on SEO-driven projects, localization, performance optimization & experimentation
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—$288,000 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.
