Key skills
Full-stack application developmentReact/TypeScriptRubyPythonGoC++PostgreSQLProduct mindsetCollaboration skillsCommunication skillsMentoringTypeScriptCSnowflakeReactSAMLSalesforceFigmaCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Figma is a company dedicated to making design accessible to all, and they are seeking a Full Stack Engineer to join their growing team. In this role, you will design, build, and ship high-quality features across the stack while collaborating with cross-functional partners to shape product direction and strategy.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- 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
- 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