Software Engineer, Figma

Editor

$149-350k

+ Equity; Salary applicable to candidates based in SF and NY only

React
TypeScript
Redux
JavaScript
Python
Java
Go
Figma
Ruby
C++
C
Rust
Objective-C
Sinatra
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1-3 days a week in office

Figma

Design platform for product teams

Job no longer available

Figma

Design platform for product teams

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Job no longer available

$149-350k

+ Equity; Salary applicable to candidates based in SF and NY only

React
TypeScript
Redux
JavaScript
Python
Java
Go
Figma
Ruby
C++
C
Rust
Objective-C
Sinatra
Mid and Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1-3 days a week in office

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

  • 4+ years of professional experience shipping user-facing features or products as a full-stack developer
  • Demonstrated fluency with one or more programming languages, including: Typescript/Javascript, React, C++, Python, Java, Objective-C, Go, or Rust
  • Experience communicating and working across functions to proactively drive solutions

Desirable

  • 2+ years of experience operating in a technical lead capacity
  • Experience in and a desire to teach fellow engineers through pairing, code review, and in-the-moment feedback
  • Experience working on editors
  • Experience writing C++ (or related languages such as Objective C or C) in a user-facing context (e.g. gaming, native applications)

What the job involves

  • You’ll form strong relationships with product managers and designers, and can expect to partner regularly with engineers and leaders beyond your immediate team
  • Building new features in a real time, multiplayer system with a complex data model that enables collaboration across files
  • Solving for performance and memory optimizations—we want to keep pushing the limits of what it's possible to create in a browser while maintaining a highly performant UX
  • Building tooling for authoring prototype behavior in the Editor, allowing users to create dynamic, interactive designs
  • Extending and scaling the Editor and full stack system behind our design system features, enabling teams to build best-in-class design systems that work well with production components
  • Contributing to mapping out an accessibility strategy, which may include improvements to the Figma UI (contrast, keyboard navigability, etc.) as well as tools to help people generate accessible content as they do their own work

Application process

  • An initial non-technical call with a recruiter
  • A live practical technical screen with an engineer using the programming language of your choice
  • A video-based conversation with the manager of your potential team
  • A fully virtual “onsite” interview with both technical/coding and non-technical/discussion-based areas of focus

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

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.

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

Founders

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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