Web Developer

As a Web Developer at Figma, you will play a vital role in building and maintaining our web platform. You’ll be responsible for working with a multi-functional team of designers, marketers, data scientists, and engineers to develop and maintain Figma’s marketing site, designsystems.com, and event sites. You will be working with a variety of modern web technologies including React, NextJS,  Gatsby, Typescript, GraphQL, headless CMS (Sanity/Contentful) and other NodeJS based frameworks. Your role will also include collaborating on OKR planning, roadmapping, onboarding new team members, and managing vendor relationships.

What you’ll do at Figma

• Be a core contributor to the 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.
• Develop and maintain high-quality user interfaces, ensuring accessibility standards are met and conducting visual QA to deliver polished, user-friendly experiences.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers on the team.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues as they arise.
• Make recommendations for the latest web technologies and improvements.

We’d love to hear from you if you have

• Development experience using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience in React/Typescript, frameworks (NextJS, Gatsby), and headless content management systems (Sanity, Contentful).
• Proficiency in building accessible, responsive, and visually appealing UIs, with a solid understanding of UI/UX principles, experience collaborating closely with designers, and a solid focus on QA and testing.
• Ability to work in a multi-functional team environment using Agile development methodologies.
• Experience working on SEO-driven projects, localization, performance optimization & experimentation.

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

• Solid understanding of conversion rate optimization standard methodologies, using A/B testing to achieve results.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD strategy and deployment processes.
• Demonstrable experience with backend technologies (NodeJS, Express), and database operation/management.

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): $122,000 – $238,000 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[at]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

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