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Company

Figma · 12 hours ago

Software Engineer - Creation Engine

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

$180K/yr - $350K/yr

2+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Regularly collaborate with designers, PMs, and other engineers beyond your team (or org) to plan features that unblock adoption across new categories of customers, and to break down high level goals into tasks and timelines

Build, document, and maintain tests, features, and infrastructure

Regularly communicate and document architectural designs and requirements

Provide thoughtful feedback to others on the team and facilitate spaces of learning, belonging, and impact

Help interview and recruit more talented engineers to Figma

Modularize our C++/Wasm engine to support new features in Figma Design and FigJam, as well as unlock the development of future product

Extend our multiplayer protocols to enable more advanced editing and collaboration modes across files

Create frameworks to maintain performance and memory standards across our products —we want to keep pushing the limits of what it's possible to create in a browser while maintaining a highly performant UX

Improve our file load times by dynamically loading needed content, optimizing our client-server protocols, and exploring ways to allow users to interact with files earlier

Optimize our renderer in order to increase frame rate during periods of heavy interaction with FigJam

Provide rich abstractions and APIs between our React/Typescript and C++/Wasm engine

Expand the way our users can extend the functionality of our products through plugins and widgets, our REST API, as well through new ML-powered extensibility features

Qualification

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C++WebAssemblyTypescriptReactGame enginesAPI integrationsGrowth mindsetTechnical leadershipCollaboration

Required

At least 2+ years of professional experience shipping features or products with specialization in web frontend frameworks or C++/Wasm

Experience working on game engines, client side technologies and platforms, API products/integrations, and/or developer tools

Demonstrated coding fluency with one or more programming languages in a working context, including but not limited to: Typescript/Javascript, C++, React, Ruby, Java, Python, Go, or Rust

Experience communicating and collaborating regularly and effectively with designers, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders beyond your team (or org) to plan features and break down high level goals into tasks and timelines

A growth mindset and experience investing in the learning, development, belonging, and impact of your peers

Preferred

2+ years of experience operating in a hands-on technical lead capacity, ideally with multi-team purview

A passion for and experience with driving product direction and developing product platforms

Benefits

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

Company

Figma

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Figma is a design platform that develops web applications for interface design with offline features.

Founded in 2012

San Francisco, California, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

https://www.figma.com

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