Web Developer

As a Web Developer at Figma, you will play a vital role in building and maintaining our web platform. You'll be responsible for working with a multi-functional team of designers, marketers, data scientists, and engineers to develop and maintain Figma's marketing site, designsystems.com, and event sites. You will be working with a variety of modern web technologies including React, NextJS,  Gatsby, Typescript, GraphQL, headless CMS (Sanity/Contentful) and other NodeJS based frameworks. Your role will also include collaborating on OKR planning, roadmapping, onboarding new team members, and managing vendor relationships.

What you’ll do at Figma:

• Be a core contributor to the development, optimization, and infrastructure of the Figma marketing website. 

• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Growth, Brand, and SEO teams to ensure reliable, performant, accessible, and secure sites.

• Develop and maintain high-quality user interfaces, ensuring accessibility standards are met and conducting visual QA to deliver polished, user-friendly experiences.

• Lead projects end-to-end — help maintain timelines, stakeholder expectations, ticket triaging, and regularly presenting with teammates and leadership.

• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers on the team.

• Mentor team members, support new hires during onboarding, and provide technical guidance to technical and non-technical collaborators.

• Troubleshoot and debug issues as they arise, and actively identify and propose projects to address and mitigate tech debt.

• Make recommendations for the latest web technologies and improvements.

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

• 3+ years of development experience using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 

• 2+ years of development experience in React/Typescript, frameworks (NextJS, Gatsby), and headless content management systems (Sanity, Contentful).

• Proficiency in building accessible, responsive, and visually appealing UIs, with a solid understanding of UI/UX principles, experience collaborating closely with designers, and a solid focus on QA and testing.

• Ability to work in a multi-functional team environment using Agile development methodologies.

• Experience working on SEO-driven projects, localization, performance optimization & experimentation.

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

• Solid understanding of conversion rate optimization standard methodologies, using A/B testing to achieve results.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD strategy and deployment processes.

• Demonstrable experience with backend technologies (NodeJS, Express), and database operation/management.

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.