Software Engineer, Desktop

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. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

We’re looking for a Desktop Engineer to join our Desktop Team and continue making our desktop app the best way to experience Figma on macOS and Windows. Our Desktop Engineering team covers a wide technical scope, given the breadth of ownership and customer impact of the app. We work highly collaboratively to solve these problems together. We strive to foster a positive, inclusive culture — you can read more about our engineering values on our blog.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States and Canada.

What you'll do at Figma: 

• Lead complex technical initiatives to improve performance, reliability, and user experience of our Electron.js-based desktop application
• Collaborate with product, design, and other engineering teams to define the desktop app roadmap
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across the Desktop App team
• Drive technical decisions that balance innovation, quality, and delivery timelines
• Share responsibility for testing, releasing, and maintaining our desktop application and related developer tools and processes
• Communicate and document architectural designs, requirements, and best practices

We'd love to hear from you if you have: 

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership
• 3+ years experience developing cross-platform JavaScript applications using Node.js, working in large C/C++ codebases (e.g. browsers, compilers, or kernels), or implementing advanced React.js patterns such as complex state management architectures or performance optimization for rendering-intensive applications
• Solid expertise in shipping production apps with the Electron.js framework
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Familiarity with the internals of Electron, Chromium, Node.js and V8, or JavaScript (e.g. memory management/garbage collection, event loop, microtasks)
• Familiarity with native operating system APIs (Win32, Cocoa/UIKit)
• Previous experience improving Continuous Integration systems for Electron-based projects and integration with their web counterpart systems around performance, costs, and developer experience
• Experience working with Figma & FigJam to have a strong sense of user empathy

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.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities. 

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to: 

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews 

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.