Software Engineer, Figma
Design Tools
$149-350k
Plus equity
1-3 days a week in office
Design platform for product teams
Be an early applicant
Design platform for product teams
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$149-350k
Plus equity
1-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
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, whiteboards products
- 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
- Build new features in a real time, multiplayer system with a complex data model that enables collaboration across files
- Build design features to enable users have strong and accurate control on design elements, such as layout, transformations, color management, typography, etc
- Build features to accelerate the creative process by offering out-of-the-box design assets such as presets, kits, templates, and so on
- Build tooling for authoring prototype behaviors in Figma design tools, allowing users to create dynamic, interactive designs
- Solve 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
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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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
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Leadership
Dylan Field
(CEO)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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