Web Developer

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 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.