Software Engineer - Full Stack

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

• Design, build, and ship high-quality features across the stack, from polished front-end experiences to scalable back-end systems
• Contribute to both new product development and improvements to established products, balancing user experience craft with performance and architecture quality
• Own projects end-to-end — ideation, technical design, implementation, testing, launch, and iteration
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Research, and Data to shape product direction and strategy
• Operate, monitor, and continuously improve the systems you build, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and scalability
• Mentor teammates, contribute to team culture, and share knowledge through code reviews, design critiques, and pairing

• Proven experience in shipping and maintaining full-stack applications in production
• Strong proficiency in modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React/TypeScript) and back-end technologies (e.g., Ruby, Python, Go, C++, PostgreSQL)
• A product mindset, with the ability to translate user needs into scalable technical solutions
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience working effectively across cross-functional teams
• Passion for engineering craft and building polished, maintainable, and scalable systems

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to write, debug, and optimize code
• Familiarity with C++ and WebAssembly in user-facing applications
• Background in areas such as growth engineering, frontend platform work (build systems, web performance, shared UI/component infrastructure), developer tooling, billing and payments infrastructure, or extensibility platforms (plugins, APIs, widgets)
• Exposure to technologies like Stripe, Salesforce, Snowflake, SCIM, SAML, or experimentation and observability tooling
• Experience leading large-scale projects or launching 0→1 products, with a passion for mentoring peers and shaping engineering culture

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 [email protected]. 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 

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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