Backend Engineer for Scalable Distributed Systems

4 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Tbwa ChiatDay Inc Full time

As a Backend Engineer on our Application Platform team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the core backend platform that enables Figma's fast-growing engineering team to scale development velocity. Your expertise in building and scaling distributed systems will help define best practices used across the company and enable teams to decouple their product verticals from each other.

About the Role
  • Create abstractions for product engineering teams to reduce friction and enable shipping new products faster
  • Build and optimize foundational infrastructure for common use cases such as running experiments and engaging users
  • Evangelize best practices throughout the engineering team to keep code quality high
  • Partner with engineering leadership to set strategy and priorities for the team and its projects

We are looking for experienced engineers to join the team who have experience working in large-scale, shared backend codebases and implementing scalable patterns. Ideal candidates will have implemented and maintained robust & reliable distributed systems that form the backbone of core product functionality.

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

Requirements
  • 6+ years overall experience building and scaling distributed systems and online services through the introduction of APIs and frameworks to a large code base
  • Strong technical communication skills and demonstrated ability to build and leverage relationships with engineering and technical leaders
  • Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages including Go, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, or similar
  • Strong system design skills ideally with experience in building online production services
  • A systematic and thorough approach to problem solving thinking from first principles with a bias for taking actions and having impact

Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.

Annual Base Salary Range: $149,000 - $350,000 USD

Please note: Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including but not limited to individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process market demands and specific work location.



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