Software Engineer - Frontend

Figma is building out our Accessibility and Design System team, to own our core UI components and how Figma uses them. Given that this is still a new team, there’s a huge opportunity to shape this team and function for years to come. We’re particularly looking for folks with strong frontend coding skills to help level up Figma’s frontend development.

In this role, you’ll drive systematic quality improvements across Figma’s web code, making Figma more accessible to use with assistive technologies and making Figma’s UX more consistent. You’ll also help many teams build high quality interfaces, and focus on improving the engineering velocity of others working with UI. You’ll work quite closely with designers focused on our design system, the design team at large, PMs, and other engineering leaders whose team’s work with design systems.

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:

• Help develop our internal design system, which is still very new.

• Help our internal design system become well adopted, well used, and well loved

• Work cross-functionally with design, product management, and engineering peers

• Work with partner teams to determine what tools they need to build and maintain accessible experiences.

• Consistently iterate on the tools and processes supporting web engineers to make the developer experience better

• Advise on our roadmap for design system features in Figma - e.g. our support for components, styles, etc - and play a key part in trialing new features

• Implement accessibility frameworks that are at the core of all Figma UX to bring great UX to ALL users.

• Build and document reusable components to bring a high degree of craft to Figma’s UI

• Building a testing framework teams use to ensure compliance with accessibility guidelines.

• Take part in creating the team’s roadmap, balancing new projects with leveraged improvements (both addressing technical debt and user facing improvements)

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

• Have at least 3+ years of professional experience shipping features or products as a frontend/full-stack developer

• Have worked on design systems, or other platform projects with other engineers as your customers.

• Have demonstrated fluency with a mainstream JS framework (React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, etc)

• Deeply care about visual design craft, and are excited to help others level up their visual and interaction execution

• Have proactive communication skills and a desire to work in a collaborative environment

• Have an interest in mentorship, learning from others, and digging into new challenges

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

• Have experience building accessible UX

• Have experience maintaining open source frameworks

• Have demonstrated fluency with Typescript/Javascript, and CSS

• 2+ years of experience operating in a technical lead capacity

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.