Figma is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join Figma's Accessibility and Design System team to drive systematic quality improvements across Figma's web code, making Figma more accessible to use with assistive technologies and making Figma's UX more consistent. You'll help many teams build high-quality interfaces, focus on improving the engineering velocity of others working with UI, and work closely with designers focused on our design system, the design team at large, PMs, and other engineering leaders.

Requirements

• Have at least 3+ years of professional experience shipping features or products as a frontend/full-stack developer
• Have worked on design systems, or other platform projects with other engineers as your customers
• Have demonstrated fluency with a mainstream JS framework (React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, etc)
• Deeply care about visual design craft, and are excited to help others level up their visual and interaction execution
• Have proactive communication skills and a desire to work in a collaborative environment
• Have an interest in mentorship, learning from others, and digging into new challenges

Responsibilities

• Help develop our internal design system, which is still very new
• Help our internal design system become well adopted, well used, and well loved
• Work cross-functionally with design, product management, and engineering peers
• Work with partner teams to determine what tools they need to build and maintain accessible experiences
• Consistently iterate on the tools and processes supporting web engineers to make the developer experience better
• Advise on our roadmap for design system features in Figma - e.g. our support for components, styles, etc - and play a key part in trialing new features
• Implement accessibility frameworks that are at the core of all Figma UX to bring great UX to ALL users
• Build and document reusable components to bring a high degree of craft to Figma’s UI
• Building a testing framework teams use to ensure compliance with accessibility guidelines
• Take part in creating the team’s roadmap, balancing new projects with leveraged improvements (both addressing technical debt and user facing improvements)

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Remote work, flexible hours
• Life and disability insurance
• Bonuses and incentives
• Professional development opportunities
• Wellness programs
• Family and parental leave