Manager, Software Engineering - UI Platform & Design Systems

Summary

Join Figma's UI Platform & Design Systems team and help make Figma beautiful, accessible, and reliable! As an Engineering Manager, you will manage and support a team of experienced engineers, partner with design and engineering leadership to set strategy, and contribute to the technical details of creating Figma's frontend codebase. You will collaborate closely with design and cross-functional leaders to build craft and delight across Figma, fostering a culture of great teamwork. This full-time role can be based in a US hub or remotely within the United States. Grow your career in a collaborative and creative engineering community at Figma!

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience and leading a high output engineering team
• 8+ years of frontend engineering experience
• Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team; including a proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior engineers
• Prior experience driving frontend platform work that enables other teams
• A deep passion for design craft and usability
• Proven success in building, scaling, and shipping high-quality work

Responsibilities

• Manage and support a team of experienced engineers to drive best in class user interfaces across Figma’s product suite
• Partner with design and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects
• Roll up your sleeves as needed to get involved in the technical details of creating our frontend codebase
• Work closely with design to build craft and delight in a high impact way across all of Figma, and collaborate with cross functional leaders across Figma to adopt these best practices
• Build and support a culture of doing great work together for our engineering team by investing in team culture, mentorship, and meaningful work
• Grow your career in a collaborative and creative engineering community

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with building accessible applications and creating highly interactive web experiences
• Experience with tools and frameworks for building Web applications like Webpack, CSS tools like Tailwind
• An understanding of best practices for testing and observability

Benefits

• 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
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles