Software Engineer - Client Platform

Figma; San Francisco (NY, CA); Remote; USD 149,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative team at a forward-thinking company dedicated to making design accessible to all. In this full-time role, you will leverage your expertise in web frontend development to enhance product quality and performance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build testing frameworks and observability tools that ensure high standards of excellence. This position offers the flexibility to work remotely or from one of our US hubs, providing an exciting opportunity to contribute to a culture of learning and impact. Embrace the chance to grow your skills while making a significant difference in the design process.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in web frontend development with a focus on testing and observability.
• Strong knowledge of client-side technologies and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop knowledge of Figma’s client-side stack and enhance product performance.
• Build testing frameworks and improve observability metrics for product excellence.

Skills

Web Frontend Development

React

Testing Frameworks (Jasmine/Jest/Playwright)

Observability Systems

Collaboration Skills

Problem Diagnosis

Tools

AWS

Bazel

CI/CD Frameworks

Code Coverage Tools

Performance Profiling Tools

Job description

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, 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!

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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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