Software Engineer, C++

🕒 July 2, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $149k - $350k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Figma

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

☁️ SaaS

💰 Venture Round on 2022-01

SaaS • Design

Figma is a collaborative design platform that enables design and development teams to work together seamlessly on creating and refining digital products. It provides tools for designing user interfaces, prototyping, and translating designs into code, all within a single shared file environment. Figma includes features like FigJam for digital whiteboarding and Dev Mode for efficient developer handoffs. With integrated AI features, Figma allows users to generate simple UI elements and create realistic prototypes. The platform also supports agile workflows, providing a centralized hub for brainstorming, strategic planning, and more, making it an essential tool for modern design and product development teams.

📋 Description

• Build core features and frontend infrastructure in a real-time, multiplayer system with a complex in-memory data model (SceneGraph) • Optimize performance and memory usage to deliver a fast, reliable UX in the browser using C++/WebAssembly and TypeScript • Extend our core C++ engine and multiplayer protocols to support scalable design systems, branching/merging flows, and advanced collaboration modes • Design and build APIs and tooling to allow product teams to build against our platform with ease and confidence • Contribute to accessibility strategy and implementation, ensuring our tools are usable by all • Collaborate regularly with cross-functional partners across product, design, and engineering to plan and execute high-impact projects • Write clear, maintainable code and documentation, and contribute to architectural decisions • Mentor and support other engineers through pairing, code review, and feedback • Help drive recruitment and shape our inclusive, high-performance engineering culture

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of professional Software Engineering experience shipping user-facing features or products • Strong programming skills in one or more languages relevant to our frontend such as TypeScript, C++, React, Go, Rust, or Python • Experience working with web-based applications, browser performance, or real-time collaborative systems • A track record of working collaboratively across teams and disciplines to deliver complex technical projects

🏖️ Benefits

• Figma offers equity to employees • Competitive package of additional benefits • Health, dental & vision • Retirement with company contribution • Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support • Mental health & wellness benefits • Generous PTO • Company recharge days • Learning & development stipend • Work from home stipend • Cell phone reimbursement • Sales incentive pay for most sales roles • Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles