Software Engineer - Frontend Platform

Summary

Join Figma's Client Platform team and contribute to building and improving client-side testing and observability frameworks for Figma's browser-based products. This full-time role, available in US hubs or remotely within the US, requires deep knowledge of Figma's client-side stack and experience with frontend technologies. You will develop testing frameworks, improve product performance through observability metrics, and collaborate with various teams. The ideal candidate possesses strong coding skills, experience with testing and observability frameworks, and excellent communication abilities. Figma offers a competitive compensation package including benefits such as health insurance, retirement contributions, parental leave, and more.

Requirements

• At least 4+ years experience building web frontend products with a passion for adopting best practices in testing and observability frameworks
• Experience working with client-side frontend technologies like React, testing frameworks like Jasmine/Jest/Playwright, observability systems for error reporting, real-time telemetry and analytics logging, build tools like Bazel and CI/CD frameworks, cloud services like AWS, and code coverage and performance/runtime profiling tools
• Demonstrated coding fluency with one or more programming languages in a working context, including but not limited to: Typescript/Javascript, C++, React, Ruby, Java, Python, Go, or Rust
• Experience communicating and collaborating regularly and effectively with designers, data science, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders beyond your team (or org) to plan features and break down high level goals into tasks and timelines
• Demonstrated unwavering commitment for improving product quality by building tools and frameworks for engineers

Responsibilities

• Develop deep knowledge of Figma’s client-side stack and its interfaces to backend sub-systems
• Build client testing frameworks to enable Figma engineers to detect feature and memory / performance regressions proactively
• Improve the performance of Figma’s products by building observability metrics and tooling to measure and debug degradations in core metrics (frame rates, memory, CPU utilization) in collaboration with feature teams and data science teams
• Provide leadership and engineering teams visibility into their quality and performance to maintain / improve Figma's high bar for product excellence
• Be a part of a unique engineering culture that fosters learning, belonging and impact

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience operating in a hands-on technical lead capacity, ideally with multi-team purview
• Have a track record for being able to diagnose problems within complex systems
• A passion for and experience with driving foundational initiatives that improve product quality and internal velocity

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