Software Engineer - Full Stack
As a Full Stack Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to build both the products and the platforms that empower millions of users—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—to create and collaborate in real time. Whether you’re designing core features, improving developer workflows, scaling enterprise infrastructure, or launching entirely new products, your work will directly shape the future of how teams bring ideas to life. You’ll take on complex technical challenges across the stack, building intuitive user experiences, optimizing performance in real-time collaborative systems, and designing secure, reliable, and scalable systems to support Figma’s rapid growth and global expansion.
Our engineers are highly cross-functional, partnering closely with Product, Design, Research, and Data to deliver best-in-class experiences. If you’re excited to work across the stack, push the boundaries of product development, and help scale the systems that power Figma, we’d love for you to join us.
This opportunity applies to openings at varying seniority levels across our teams, including but not limited to Figma Editor, FigJam, Figma Slides, Figma Sites, Figma Buzz, Growth & Monetization, Internal Tools, and our cross-product Foundations team. We’ll discuss more specifics about open roles during the interview process.
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:
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
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
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
While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
Experience leading large-scale projects or launching 0→1 products
Familiarity with C++ and WebAssembly in user-facing applications
Background in areas such as growth engineering, 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
A passion for mentoring peers and helping shape engineering culture
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 and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):
$149,000—$350,000 USD
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Software Engineer - Full Stack
As a Full Stack Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to build both the products and the platforms that empower millions of users—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—to create and collaborate in real time. Whether you’re designing core features, improving developer workflows, scaling enterprise infrastructure, or launching entirely new products, your work will directly shape the future of how teams bring ideas to life. You’ll take on complex technical challenges across the stack, building intuitive user experiences, optimizing performance in real-time collaborative systems, and designing secure, reliable, and scalable systems to support Figma’s rapid growth and global expansion.
Our engineers are highly cross-functional, partnering closely with Product, Design, Research, and Data to deliver best-in-class experiences. If you’re excited to work across the stack, push the boundaries of product development, and help scale the systems that power Figma, we’d love for you to join us.
This opportunity applies to openings at varying seniority levels across our teams, including but not limited to Figma Editor, FigJam, Figma Slides, Figma Sites, Figma Buzz, Growth & Monetization, Internal Tools, and our cross-product Foundations team. We’ll discuss more specifics about open roles during the interview process.
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:
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
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
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
While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
Experience leading large-scale projects or launching 0→1 products
Familiarity with C++ and WebAssembly in user-facing applications
Background in areas such as growth engineering, 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
A passion for mentoring peers and helping shape engineering culture
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 and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):
$149,000—$350,000 USD