Figma is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join Figma's Application Platform team as an experienced engineer to develop core backend platform primitives, steward the company's backend codebase architecture, and enable fast-growing engineering teams. Ideal candidates have experience working in large-scale shared backend codebases, implementing scalable patterns, and building robust & reliable distributed systems.

Requirements

• 6+ years overall experience building and scaling distributed systems and online services through the introduction of APIs and frameworks to a large code base
• Strong technical communication skills, and demonstrated ability to build and leverage relationships with engineering and technical leaders
• Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages including Go, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, or similar
• Strong system design skills, ideally with experience in building online production services
• A systematic and thorough approach to problem solving, thinking from first principles with a bias for taking actions and having impact
• An interest in mentorship, learning from others, and digging into new challenges

Responsibilities

• Create abstractions for product engineering teams that reduce friction and enable shipping new products faster
• Build and optimize foundational infrastructure for common use cases such as running experiments and engaging users
• Evangelize best practices throughout the engineering team to keep code quality high
• Partner with engineering leadership to set strategy and priorities for the team and its projects
• Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with others in the organization
• Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and lessons learned from transforming a company’s distributed systems from monolithic software development to a federated approach
• Experience with Ruby, and even better if it is experience with Rails

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