Figma is a company dedicated to making design accessible to all, and they are seeking a Full Stack Engineer to build products and platforms that empower users to collaborate in real time. The role involves designing and implementing features, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of systems.
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
Skills
- 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 using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to write, debug, and optimize code
- 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
- Experience leading large-scale projects or launching 0→1 products, with a passion for mentoring peers and shaping engineering culture
Benefits
- Equity to employees
- 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
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Sales incentive pay for most sales roles
- An annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
Company Overview
Figma is a collaborative design tool that enables teams to create, prototype, and test digital products on one platform. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.figma.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Figma has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 12 in 2026, 47 in 2025, 27 in 2024, 32 in 2023, 35 in 2022, 16 in 2021, 6 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.