Early Career, Software Engineer

Position: Early Career, Software Engineer (2026)
Overview

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.

If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

More than anything, we seek engineers with strong coding fundamentals and a track record of high quality engineering. We work in a highly collaborative environment, where most projects are owned by small groups of 2-3 people. We strive to foster a positive, inclusive culture - you can read more about our engineering values on our blog.

This role will be based out of our San Francisco or New York hub.

What you’ll do at Figma

In 30 days, you will…

• Be paired with an onboarding buddy on your team who will help you ramp in our codebase and get to know Figma. You’ll move from starter tasks meant to familiarize you with our workflows, to joining your teammates on larger projects

• Understand how we operate as a business through our comprehensive onboarding program, Figma Today

• Get to know your Figmates across the company

In 60 days, you will…

• Work closely with teammates and partners in Product, Design, Marketing, User Research, and Data Science to build new features and achieve roadmap goals. We prioritize collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, so you won’t operate in silos

• Craft performance objectives with your manager that align to company priorities and career development opportunities

• Help grow Figma by interviewing candidates for teams across the Engineering organization

Qualifications

• Solid technical knowledge of CS fundamentals and data structures

• Experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.)

• Have worked on projects through school, work, or personal exploration that required solving technical problems

• Are excited to explore how systems are designed and operate, from infrastructure to UI

• Communicate well, ask great questions, and enjoy collaborating with others

• A growth mindset with an eagerness to learn and contribute not only to your engineering team, but the entire organization

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

• Comfort with Figma products

Pay, Benefits and Diversity

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 and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.

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