Software Engineer Intern (London, United Kingdom) (Summer 2027)

Precision Labs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 17,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Figma is seeking software engineering interns to contribute to multiple layers of our product and infrastructure from our London hub. You will join small, collaborative teams, pair with mentors, and work on meaningful features or tools with real impact.

You’ll learn, ship, and grow while gaining exposure to internal systems and open collaboration across engineering, PM, design, and QA. You’ll be exposed to areas like product features, platform tooling, security-focused work, and exploratory

Qualifications

• Experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.), with a solid grasp of core CS concepts like data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving technical problems through school, work, or personal projects
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to write, debug, and optimize code
• Demonstrated curiosity about how systems are designed and operate, from infrastructure to UI
• Strong communicator who asks great questions, collaborates well with others, and is excited to learn, get feedback, and grow as an engineer

Responsibilities

• Join a small engineering team as a full member of the team, with your own project and mentor
• Contribute to projects that directly align with team goals and impact
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and QA to break down features and plan timelines
• Build, document, and maintain tests, features, or infrastructure
• Share feedback and participate in peer code review
• Ship your project(s) by the end of your internship!
• Work alongside mentors to understand production systems and tooling
• Learn across different layers of product and infrastructure

Skills

Clean code

CS fundamentals

Python

JavaScript

C++

Algorithms

Team collaboration

AI tools

Job description

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you’re brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you’re excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

We’re looking for software engineering interns who are excited to make an impact across different layers of our product and infrastructure. At Figma, we pair interns with teams that align with their skills and interests. This year, we’re inviting you to share your interests from the start, so we can create the strongest possible match.

Our interns are embedded into small, collaborative engineering teams across the company. You’ll work closely with your mentor and teammates to ship meaningful features, tools, or systems. Whether you’re working on internal infrastructure or user-facing features, you’ll get to learn, contribute, and grow in a supportive environment.

This internship will be based out of our London Hub with a 5/3, 5/17, 6/1 or 6/14 start date.

Engineering Interests at Figma:

When you apply, you’ll tell us which areas you’re most interested in to help us understand which kinds of engineering work you’re most excited about:

1. Product: Build full stack user facing features, including new collaboration tools, new product workflows, growth oriented experiments, and more
2. Platform/Infrastructure: Build platform level tools, including distributed systems, developer tooling, performance/scalability work, and more
3. Security Engineering: Build security-focused systems, product security tooling, detection, secure infrastructure, or privacy/security features
4. Open: I’m flexible and still exploring different types of work

What you’ll do at Figma:

• Join a small engineering team as a full member of the team, with your own project and mentor
• Contribute to projects that directly align with team goals and impact
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and QA to break down features and plan timelines
• Build, document, and maintain tests, features, or infrastructure
• Share feedback and participate in peer code review
• Ship your project(s) by the end of your internship!

Some past intern projects:

• Diagramming improvements in FigJam
• Smart selection
• Shared fonts

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

• Experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.), with a solid grasp of core CS concepts like data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving technical problems through school, work, or personal projects
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to write, debug, and optimize code
• Demonstrated curiosity about how systems are designed and operate, from infrastructure to UI
• Strong communicator who asks great questions, collaborates well with others, and is excited to learn, get feedback, and grow as an engineer

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.

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.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to [e-mail]. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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