Software Engineer – Creation Engine | Figma | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. <a href="https://www.figma.com/blog/meet-us-in-the-browser/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Born on the Web</a>, Figma helps entire product teams <a href="https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-figjam/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">brainstorm</a>, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come <a href="https://www.figma.com/blog/inside-maker-week-more-than-a-hackathon/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">make</a> with us!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our <strong class=" font-semibold">Creation Engine</strong> teams work on some of the core technologies that power our real time, browser-based <a href="https://www.figma.com/design-overview/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Figma Design</a> and <a href="https://www.figma.com/figjam/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">FigJam</a> products. These teams work mostly (but not exclusively) on client-side code that runs in the browser. Under the hood, Figma shares a lot of similarities to a game engine. We develop this C++/WebAssembly engine to ensure internal and external developers can rapidly build new products and features that are fast and reliable by default. We’re always looking for ways to make our platform more extensible, more performant, less resource intensive, and more reliable. We own areas such as our in-memory data model (SceneGraph), renderer, multiplayer client/server protocols, and plugins and REST API.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you’ll do at Figma:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build, document, and maintain tests, features, and infrastructure</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Regularly communicate and document architectural designs and requirements</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Provide thoughtful feedback to others on the team and facilitate spaces of learning, belonging, and impact</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Help interview and recruit more talented engineers to Figma</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Modularize our C++/Wasm engine to support new features in Figma Design and FigJam, as well as unlock the development of future product</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Extend our multiplayer protocols to enable more advanced editing and collaboration modes across files</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Optimize our renderer in order to increase frame rate during periods of heavy interaction with FigJam</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Provide rich abstractions and APIs between our React/Typescript and C++/Wasm engine, or</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">We’d love to hear from you if you have:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">At least 2+ years of professional experience shipping features or products with specialization in web frontend frameworks or C++/Wasm</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience working on game engines, client side technologies and platforms, API products/integrations, and/or developer tools</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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,</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A growth mindset and experience investing in the learning, development, belonging, and impact of your peers</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">2+ years of experience operating in a hands-on technical lead capacity, ideally with multi-team purview</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A passion for and experience with driving product direction and developing product platforms</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2">Read more about our team:</h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-system/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How Figma’s multiplayer technology works</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://a16z.com/2020/04/30/figma/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Investing in Figma: The Decade of Design</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://www.figma.com/blog/how-work-is-changing-at-figma/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How work is changing at Figma</a></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">#LI-Remote</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Pay Transparency Disclosure</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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. You may view our <a href="https://www.figma.com/pay-transparency-policy-statement/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Pay Transparency Policy</a> by clicking on the corresponding link.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">$180,000—$350,000 USD</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC%5FKnowYourRights%5Fscreen%5Freader%5F10%5F20.pdf" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">equal opportunity workplace</a> – 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 <a href="mailto:accommodations-ext@figma.com" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer">accommodations-ext@figma.com</a>. 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Holding interviews in an accessible location</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Changing the mode or format of interviews</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with the applicable candidate section of <a href="https://www.figma.com/privacy/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Figma’s Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our <strong class=" font-semibold">Creation Engine</strong> teams work on some of the core technologies that power our real time, browser-based <a href="https://www.figma.com/design-overview/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Figma Design</a> and <a href="https://www.figma.com/figjam/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">FigJam</a> products. These teams work mostly (but not exclusively) on client-side code that runs in the browser. Under the hood, Figma shares a lot of similarities to a game engine. We develop this C++/WebAssembly engine to ensure internal and external developers can rapidly build new products and features that are fast and reliable by default. We’re always looking for ways to make our platform more extensible, more performant, less resource intensive, and more reliable. We own areas such as our in-memory data model (SceneGraph), renderer, multiplayer client/server protocols, and plugins and REST API.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What you’ll do at Figma:</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Build, document, and maintain tests, features, and infrastructure</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Regularly communicate and document architectural designs and requirements</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Provide thoughtful feedback to others on the team and facilitate spaces of learning, belonging, and impact</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Help interview and recruit more talented engineers to Figma</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Modularize our C++/Wasm engine to support new features in Figma Design and FigJam, as well as unlock the development of future product</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Extend our multiplayer protocols to enable more advanced editing and collaboration modes across files</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Optimize our renderer in order to increase frame rate during periods of heavy interaction with FigJam</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Provide rich abstractions and APIs between our React/Typescript and C++/Wasm engine, or</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">We’d love to hear from you if you have:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">At least 2+ years of professional experience shipping features or products with specialization in web frontend frameworks or C++/Wasm</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience working on game engines, client side technologies and platforms, API products/integrations, and/or developer tools</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">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,</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A growth mindset and experience investing in the learning, development, belonging, and impact of your peers</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2"><strong class=" font-semibold">While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:</strong></h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">2+ years of experience operating in a hands-on technical lead capacity, ideally with multi-team purview</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A passion for and experience with driving product direction and developing product platforms</span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class=" text-white font-semibold text-lg mb-2">Read more about our team:</h3>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-system/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How Figma’s multiplayer technology works</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://a16z.com/2020/04/30/figma/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Investing in Figma: The Decade of Design</a></span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200"><a href="https://www.figma.com/blog/how-work-is-changing-at-figma/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">How work is changing at Figma</a></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">#LI-Remote</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Pay Transparency Disclosure</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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. You may view our <a href="https://www.figma.com/pay-transparency-policy-statement/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Pay Transparency Policy</a> by clicking on the corresponding link.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">$180,000—$350,000 USD</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC%5FKnowYourRights%5Fscreen%5Freader%5F10%5F20.pdf" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">equal opportunity workplace</a> – 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 <a href="mailto:accommodations-ext@figma.com" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer">accommodations-ext@figma.com</a>. 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Holding interviews in an accessible location</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Changing the mode or format of interviews</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with the applicable candidate section of <a href="https://www.figma.com/privacy/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Figma’s Privacy Policy</a>.</p>