Web Developer

Summary

Join Figma's growing team and play a vital role in building and maintaining our web platform as a Web Developer. You will collaborate with a multi-functional team to develop and maintain Figma's marketing site, designsystems.com, and event sites, utilizing modern web technologies like React, NextJS, Gatsby, and more. Responsibilities include contributing to back-end and front-end development, collaborating with various teams, designing scalable web architecture, acting as a bridge between teams, leading projects, participating in code reviews, mentoring team members, and creating testing strategies. 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

• 5+ years of development experience using React, Node.js HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Typescript
• 3+ years of development experience in frameworks (NextJS, Gatsby), and headless content management systems (Sanity, Contentful)
• Experience with QA and testing, server rendered and statically generated sites
• Understanding of site security, database operation/management, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD strategy and deployment processes
• Experience with caching and web optimization techniques while using Agile development methodologies

Responsibilities

• Be a core contributor to the back-end and front-end development, optimization, and infrastructure of the Figma marketing website
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Growth, Brand, and SEO teams to ensure reliable, performant, accessible, and secure sites
• Design and implement scalable web architecture and systems in partnership with our Security and Infrastructure Engineering teams
• Act as a bridge between the marketing web team and our security and infrastructure groups — surfacing needs, sharing context, and facilitating cross-functional improvements through implementation and thorough documentation
• Lead projects end-to-end—maintaining timelines, stakeholder expectations, ticket triaging, and regularly presenting with teammates and leadership
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers on the team
• Mentor team members, support new hires during onboarding, and provide technical guidance to technical and non-technical collaborators
• Create and maintain comprehensive testing strategies and make recommendations for the latest web technologies and improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrable understanding of conversion rate optimization standard methodologies, using A/B testing to achieve results
• Experience working on SEO-driven projects, localization, performance optimization & experimentation

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