Web Developer

Job Description

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!
We are looking for a Web Developer to join our team! This role is vital as we continue to scale our overall web platform. Our collaborative environment will empower you to work with many phenomenal teams of designers, marketers, and engineers. Your efforts will enable the development and support of Figma’s marketing and design system sites. In this role you will use modern web technologies like React, Typescript, and headless content management systems while helping with objective planning and onboarding new team members.
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

Be a core contributor to the back-end and front-end 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.
Design and implement scalable web architecture, including host and distributed systems (e.g. AWS, CloudFront).
Lead projects end-to-end — maintaining 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.
Build and maintain comprehensive testing strategies tests to ensure code quality, reliability, and performance.

We’d love to hear from you if you have

5+ years of development experience using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
3+ years of development experience in React/Typescript, frameworks (Next.js, Gatsby), headless CMS (Sanity, Contentful), backend technologies (Node.js, Express), and server rendered & statically generated sites.
Experience working on SEO-driven projects, localization, performance optimization & experimentation.
Worked on projects with QA and testing, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
Understanding of site security, e.g., DDoS attack mitigation, cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention, protection against SQL injection.

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

Worked on conversion rate optimization standard methodologies, using A/B testing to achieve results.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD strategy and deployment processes.

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. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub): $149,000 – $288,000 USD
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace – we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

Holding interviews in an accessible location
Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
Changing the mode or format of interviews