Software Engineer - FigJam

FigJam is an online whiteboard for teams to ideate and brainstorm together. Purpose-built for every stage of your end-to-end workflows FigJam makes everything from whiteboarding to design sprints easier and more fun — whether you’re working alone or collaborating with your extended team no matter where in the world they’re based.

This is Figma’s newest standalone product offering and is still in its earliest stages of opportunity; we’ll look to you to help own and shape product direction as we explore this greenfield space. You’ll use our unique technical stack to solve complex technical challenges and help launch some of FigJam’s most compelling forthcoming features.

We use C++ (we call it fullscreen) for the main canvas working space in FigJam which compiles to WebAssembly to run in the browser and enables our powerful performance and rendering capability - an industry setting standard for what is possible on the web. We use React and Typescript for our UI where things like our toolbar and context menus live; it works in close concert with the WebAssembly layer so we can offer a responsive interactive and delightful user experience. Livegraph is Figma’s own implementation of GraphQL which helps us query data from our databases efficiently. We occasionally dabble in REST APIs and our infrastructure code as well!

Figma is a highly collaborative organization and most projects are owned by small teams of 2-3 people. You’ll form strong relationships and collaborate with engineers outside of your immediate team designers leaders PMs data scientists and user researchers to both scale our product efforts and invest in each other’s learning growth and success. We strive to foster an inclusive culture that promotes equity and belonging and use our engineering values to guide how we work together: communicate early and often lift your team focus on craftsmanship and prioritize impact . Learn more about our values and how we developed them here.

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:

• Ship a feature to production which might include things like a UX update to our delightful toolbar.

• Participate in design reviews technical reviews and give feedback during user testing sessions.

• Craft performance objectives with your manager that align with company priorities and career development opportunities.

• Begin contributing to feature workstreams organized around weekly roadmap goals and longer-term milestones in partnership with engineers and designers - we don’t operate in silos.

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

• 4+ years of experience in programming languages (Typescript/Javascript React C++ Python Java Objective-C Go or Rust)

• 4+ years of professional experience shipping user-facing features or products

• Experience communicating and working across functions to proactively drive solutions

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

• Experience working on or leading development on a large web application.

• Experience writing C++ (or related languages such as Objective C or C) in a user-facing context (e.g. gaming native applications).

• Experience working on collaboration tools

• Experience in and a desire to teach fellow engineers through pairing code review and in-the-moment feedback.

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.