Software Engineer - Client Platform

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!

The Client Platform team’s mission is to empower Figma’s client developers to rapidly adopt best practices, create features, and own performance and quality end-to-end. Figma’s browser-based products like Figma Design and FigJam are built on a unique client-side stack that integrates the core engine built with C++/WebAssembly with a modern web stack. This team is building automated client testing and observability frameworks that are used by Figma engineers at every stage of product development. This blog post is an example of how we are implementing novel solutions for addressing Figma’s unique challenges.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you'll do at Figma:

• Develop deep knowledge of Figma’s client-side stack and its interfaces to backend sub-systems.
• Build client testing frameworks to enable Figma engineers to detect feature and memory / performance regressions proactively.
• Improve the performance of Figma’s products by building observability metrics and tooling to measure and debug degradations in core metrics (frame rates, memory, CPU utilization) in collaboration with feature teams and data science teams.
• Provide leadership and engineering teams visibility into their quality and performance to maintain / improve Figma's high bar for product excellence.
• Be a part of a unique engineering culture that fosters learning, belonging and impact.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• At least 4+ years experience building web frontend products with a passion for adopting best practices in testing and observability frameworks.
• Experience working with client-side frontend technologies like React, testing frameworks like Jasmine/Jest/Playwright, observability systems for error reporting, real-time telemetry and analytics logging, build tools like Bazel and CI/CD frameworks, cloud services like AWS, and code coverage and performance/runtime profiling tools.
• Demonstrated coding fluency with one or more programming languages in a working context, including but not limited to: Typescript/Javascript, C++, React, Ruby, Java, Python, Go, or Rust.
• Experience communicating and collaborating regularly and effectively with designers, data science, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders beyond your team (or org) to plan features and break down high level goals into tasks and timelines.
• Demonstrated unwavering commitment for improving product quality by building tools and frameworks for engineers.

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• 2+ years of experience operating in a hands-on technical lead capacity, ideally with multi-team purview.
• Have a track record for being able to diagnose problems within complex systems.
• A passion for and experience with driving foundational initiatives that improve product quality and internal velocity.

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. You may view our Pay Transparency Policy by clicking on the corresponding link.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$149,000—$350,000 USD

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.

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• Holding interviews in an accessible location
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• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
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