Software Engineer

Summary

Join Figma's growing engineering team and help build industry-leading collaborative design and production tools. As a Software Engineer, you will build, launch, and iterate on user-facing features across Figma's design, developer, and collaboration tools. You will contribute to both new product development and improvements to existing products, focusing on user experience, architecture quality, and performance. You'll work on complex technical challenges and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams. This full-time role can be based in a US hub or remotely within the United States. Figma offers a competitive compensation package and benefits.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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