Figma
Software Engineer - Application Platform
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
- Our systems sit on critical production paths and shape the day-to-day experience of backend engineers across Figma.
- You don't need to be a Ruby language specialist.
Responsibilities
- At Figma we celebrate and support our differences.
- 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
- Partner with product engineers-your customers-and Infrastructure teams to identify recurring pain points and turn them into reusable platform capabilities
- 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
Requirements
- Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
Compensation
- $153,000 - $376,000 USD
- 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.
- Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations.
- Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
- All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law.
- Annual Base Salary Range:
Company info
- Application Platform is part of Product Platform within Figma's Infrastructure organization.
Equal opportunity
- If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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 cha
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