Software Engineer - Frontend Platform

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Requirements:

• At least 4+ years experience building web frontend products with a passion for adopting best practices in testing and observability frameworks.
• Experience working with client-side frontend technologies like React, testing frameworks like Jasmine/Jest/Playwright, observability systems for error reporting, real-time telemetry and analytics logging, build tools like Bazel and CI/CD frameworks, cloud services like AWS, and code coverage and performance/runtime profiling tools.
• 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.
• Experience communicating and collaborating regularly and effectively with designers, data science, PMs, engineers, and stakeholders beyond your team (or org) to plan features and break down high level goals into tasks and timelines.
• Demonstrated unwavering commitment for improving product quality by building tools and frameworks for engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop deep knowledge of Figma’s client-side stack and its interfaces to backend sub-systems.
• Build client testing frameworks to enable Figma engineers to detect feature and memory / performance regressions proactively.
• Improve the performance of Figma’s products by building observability metrics and tooling to measure and debug degradations in core metrics (frame rates, memory, CPU utilization) in collaboration with feature teams and data science teams.
• Provide leadership and engineering teams visibility into their quality and performance to maintain / improve Figma's high bar for product excellence.