Software Engineer, Backend Figma Weave (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figmas platform helps teams bring ideas to lifewhether youre 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. If youre excited to shape the future of design and collaboration join us!

Were building the next chapter of AI-native craft and creativity - where craft and technology meet. Our unified platform bridges the gap between AI capabilities and human creativity and lets professional creatives and designers harness the power of the worlds leading AI models without losing precision expression or soul. Together were building tools that help people move faster without sacrificing quality precision or craft a platform where AI supports creativity instead of flattening it.

As a Software Engineer on our Figma Weave team youll help design build and operate the systems that power our tools. Were scaling fast and were looking for engineers who thrive at the intersection of product and infrastructure. Whether youre building orchestration pipelines optimizing and extending our APIs for scalability and flexibility improving service reliability or shaping the foundations that enable us to scale this role offers an opportunity to influence the backbone of one of the fastest-growing teams.

What Youll Do at Figma Weave:

• Design build and maintain scalable reliable backend and infrastructure systems that power product innovation and enable seamless user collaboration at scale
• Architect and evolve distributed systems including storage platforms streaming infrastructure and compute orchestration
• Collaborate across product and infrastructure teams to design secure maintainable and performant systems
• Participate in shaping platform strategy roadmaps and engineering best practices across the organization
• Debug and resolve complex production issues that span services and layers of the stack
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of collaboration inclusivity and technical excellence

Wed Love to Hear From You If You Have:

• 5 years of Software Engineering experience specifically in backend engineering
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts such as sharding replication consistency and eventual convergence
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS GCP or Azure) infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration
• Proficiency in languages such as Go TypeScript Rust or Ruby
• Experience designing and scaling storage systems (e.g. Postgres Redis S3 DynamoDB)
• Strong system design skills and a track record of architecting resilient production systems
• Excellent communication skills with experience collaborating across teams and mentoring others

While its not required its an added plus if you also have:

• Experience with event-driven architectures or streaming systems such as Kafka Kinesis or SQS
• A history of developing complex realtime distributed systems at scale
• A passion for building developer productivity tools including development environments CI/CD pipelines and build systems
• Experience with evolving large-scale shared developer platforms to improve reliability and developer velocity
• Strong problem-solving skills and a bias for actionespecially when tackling high-impact gritty challenges

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 youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt 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.

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.

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