Software Engineer, Full Stack

Summary

Figma is growing its team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to build products and platforms that empower millions of users to create and collaborate in real time.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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

Nice to Haves

• 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

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement benefits with company contributions
• Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws
• Exempt employees are eligible for employer-provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave
• PTO is subject to manager approval
• Company recharge days
• Cell phone and home internet reimbursements
• A number of lifestyle spending accounts
• All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law
• Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles
• An annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles