Software Engineer - Application Platform

Join Figma as a Backend Developer to enhance our Application Platform, focusing on Ruby frameworks and backend systems. Work remotely or from our US hubs and help shape the future of design collaboration. 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.

• •Design and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access
• •Improve the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems that support critical product functionality
• •Modernize a large Ruby codebase through safe architectural changes, including moving REST APIs from Sinatra toward Rails and introducing stronger endpoint abstractions and type safety
• •Make backend development faster by improving hot reloading, local workflows, test infrastructure, CI reliability, debugging tools, and iteration speed
• •Strengthen the scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery capabilities of Figma’s asynchronous job platform
• •Partner with product engineers—your customers—and Infrastructure teams to identify recurring pain points and turn them into reusable platform capabilities
• •Establish pragmatic engineering practices through shared libraries, APIs, documentation, tooling, code review, and technical guidance
• •Mentor other engineers and contribute to a culture of thoughtful execution, high technical standards, and shared ownership

• •Equity to employees
• •Competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage
• •Retirement benefits with company contributions
• •Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
• •Mental health and wellness benefits
• •Paid time off, including paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits
• •Flexible paid sick leave and PTO subject to manager approval
• •Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts
• •Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
• •Annual Base Salary Range: $153,000 — $376,000 USD

• •Bring 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production systems with Ruby
• •Build, maintain, and evolve large Ruby applications and shared backend codebases that support multiple engineering teams
• •Design reliable distributed systems at production scale, including APIs, background processing, testing, observability, and operations
• •Improve complex, established systems through architecture, modularization, migrations, performance, reliability, or developer tooling
• •Create scalable abstractions, navigate technical tradeoffs, and collaborate with and mentor engineers across teams

• •Experience with background-job or workflow systems, including retries, idempotency, scheduling, backpressure, isolation, and failure recovery
• •Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, workflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform
• •Experience improving test performance, local development environments, CI systems, or large-scale code migrations