Manager of Software Engineering, Figma

Frontend Platform

$240-350k

Salary applicable to SF & NY applicants only. + Equity

React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Figma
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Figma

Design platform for product teams

Open for applications

Figma

Design platform for product teams

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Open for applications

$240-350k

Salary applicable to SF & NY applicants only. + Equity

React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Figma
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Company mission

Figma's mission is to help teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.

Role

Who you are

  • 8+ years of frontend engineering experience
  • 3+ years of engineering management experience
  • Extensive experience with Typescript and React
  • Experience building complex web applications with modern frameworks
  • Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team; including a proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior engineers

Desirable

  • Experience working with other web frameworks like Redux, Atoms
  • Experience with tools and frameworks for building Web applications like Webpack, CSS tools like Tailwind
  • Experience with CI/CD of Web applications adopting best practices for testing and observability like Sentry, Datadog

What the job involves

  • The Frontend Platform team's mission is to empower Figma’s frontend web developers to quickly adopt best practices, create features, and own performance and quality end-to-end
  • This team defines and builds the frameworks and best practices for Figma’s Frontend Javascript and Typescript codebase
  • As an Engineering Manager, you will reshape how Figma’s client codebase is organized to make it more modular and performant, with the appropriate abstractions on the client side
  • The team also owns the tooling and build deployment frameworks that enables us to efficiently ship performant, high-quality frontend code as we scale Figma engineering
  • Manage, support, and grow a diverse team of experienced engineers to drive Figma’s frontend technical strategy
  • Empower our internal frontend developers to quickly ship high-quality features
  • Roll up your sleeves as needed to get involved in the technical details of creating a world-class frontend codebase
  • Partner with product and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects
  • Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization
  • Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community

Our take

Figma is a web-based design platform that helps cross-functional teams of designers, project managers, and developers easily collaborate on product design projects. Its standout feature, Multiplayer mode, is like Google Docs for design, letting team members collaborate in real-time on project files that are hosted in the cloud.

Founded in 2012, Figma quickly established itself among its competitors in the sector and achieved a valuation exceeding $10 billion in 2021, boosted by a trend towards remote work. Its acquistion by Adobe for twice that amount just a year later raised eyebrows, but is a testament to the huge potential of this company and its product.

Thousands of industry-leading companies such as AirBnB, Dropbox, GitHub and Microsoft use Figma to scale their design efforts easily across distributed teams. Adobe has committed to leaving Figma autonomous going forward, and Figma will benefit from Adobe's digital imaging and AI tech in its product development.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

97% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

May 2024

$415.7m

SERIES F

Jan 2022

$0.5m

SERIES E

Total funding: $749.1m

Company benefits

  • Equity
  • Health, Dental, & Vision
  • Retirement with company contribution
  • Parental leave & fertility support
  • Mental health and wellness benefits
  • Generous PTO
  • Company recharge days
  • Learning & development stipend
  • Work from home stipend
  • Cell phone reimbursement

Company values

  • Build community
  • Run with it
  • Love your craft
  • Grow as you go

Company HQ

Union Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Previous Research Assistant at Microsoft for 1 year. Spent 2.5 years at Brown University pursuing a CS/Math degree, dropping out with the support of the Thiel Fellowship, when he earnt a grant of $100,000 to pursue entrepreneurial projects.

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