Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!
As a software engineer on the Internal Tools engineering team you will build an internal platform that brings joy to your end users—Figma employees. You will also be involved in providing guidance on how other engineering teams can build internal experiences. We excel by working closely with our internal customers to develop what they and Figma need. Whether this is collaborating on new AI strategies for Customer Support, enhancing internal engineering workflows to reduce friction, automating Sanctions and Digital Services Act (DSA) compliance, or building AI moderation platform capabilities, we have a broad scope which enables us to delight and deliver highly impactful outcomes. This role is a good fit if you are a Full Stack Engineer that is passionate about multiplying our engineering efforts through automation, testing, orchestration, documentation, and productivity tools.
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What you'll do at Figma:
- Build, document, and maintain tests, features, and infrastructure.
- Regularly communicate and document architectural designs and requirements.
- Take shared ownership of the engineering process. Every member of our team is involved from ideation to implementation.
- Break down high level goals into tasks and timeline without product and design support to achieve desired outcomes.
- Regularly collaborate with Product Support, TPMs, and other engineers on and beyond your team (or org) to plan features that reduce friction of internal processes.
- Provide thoughtful feedback to others on the team and facilitate spaces of learning, belonging, and growth.
- Help interview and recruit more talented engineers to Figma.
- Run experiments, tracking internal user behavior and engaging internal users to improve workflows and processes.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- 3+ years of professional experience shipping features and/or products as a full-stack developer.
- Demonstrated coding fluency with one or more programming languages in a working context, including but not limited to: Typescript/Javascript, React, Ruby, Python, Go, or Rust.
- Experience communicating and working effectively across functions to proactively drive solutions.
- Experience with crafting delightful user experiences that enable internal teams.
- Experience w/ Datadog or another observability system, like Prometheus & Grafana (open source) for debugging, monitoring, and alerting applications.
- Finally, Figma is a close-knit company with a strong culture that promotes inclusivity and collaboration, taking ambitious goals and having fun doing so. You deeply value these traits and see yourself actively contributing to it.
While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
- 2+ years of experience operating in a technical lead capacity
- A growth mindset and experience investing in the learning, development, belonging, and impact of your peers
- Experience in and a desire to teach fellow engineers through pairing, code review, and in-the-moment feedback
At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including 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, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):
$149,000—$350,000 USD
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Holding interviews in an accessible location
- Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
- Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
- Changing the mode or format of interviews
By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.
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