Software Engineer - iOS

The Mobile Product team supports Figma’s powerful companion apps for iOS and Android. We are looking for new team members who value collaboration usability and excellence to maintain and build new features for the Figma iOS app. You’ll work closely with your engineering peers to chart out upcoming work and how best to execute on it. You’ll brainstorm with cross-functional partners (design product research data science) to deliver delightful mobile experiences to Figma’s users. We also work with product teams across Figma to identify the most impactful features to bring to mobile and continuously invest in the quality of our mobile apps to make them a joy to use for designers (and everyone else!).

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:

• Work with PMs designers and other engineers to bring Figma’s most popular features to iPhone and iPad

• Use Apple technologies like Swift SwiftUI and UIKit

• Participate in user research and testing to better understand our customers

• Share responsibility for testing releasing and maintaining our mobile apps

• Communicate and document architectural designs and requirements

• Provide thoughtful feedback to others on the team

• Help interview and recruit more talented engineers to Figma

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

• 4+ years of professional experience building iOS applications

• An extensive understanding of mobile product development practices

• Proactive communication skills and a desire to work in a collaborative environment with iOS Android and web engineers

• A pragmatic approach to software development software that delivers real user value through maintainable performant code

• A strong product sense and desire to deeply understand users

• Enthusiasm for mentoring other engineers and helping shape engineering culture

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

• Experience as a tech lead or project lead in delivering mobile first experiences that complement a web-based feature set

• Familiarity with web development languages and technologies like Typescript React Python Ruby etc

• Comfort with doing first draft UI designs in code that use established mobile UI/UX patterns

• Experience with one or more of the following complementary areas:

  • Android app development

  • Writing and maintaining API endpoints for mobile apps

  • Instrumenting user behavior metrics and creating visualizations to show trends

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):

$149000—$350000 USD