Software Engineer, Graphics & Media

Responsibilities

• Drive guidance, quality, and standards for rendering at Figma, and explore opportunities that keep us on the bleeding edge of new capability and advancements.
• A track record of working collaboratively across teams and disciplines to deliver complex technical projects

Requirements

• 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.
• Our Creation Engine teams work on some of the core technologies that power our real time, browser-based Figma Design and FigJam products. These teams work mostly (but not exclusively) on client-side code that runs in the browser. Under the hood, Figma shares a lot of similarities to a game engine. We develop this C++/WebAssembly engine to ensure internal and external developers can rapidly build new products and features that are fast and reliable by default, and own areas such as our
• Pixel Engine works on the rendering engine, and builds new primitives and features to support new company efforts.
• The Pixel Engine team is looking for engineers with domain expertise in Media processing and playback.
• Our team is focused on a breadth of platform work, ranging from supporting new animation primitives, shader-based effects, and video and image import/export support.
• Error handling and network retry logicInterface with the rendering engine in scenarios of image and video rendering
• Experience with any of the following languages: C++, TypeScript, GLSL •
• Experience working with web-based applications, browser performance, or real-time collaborative systems
• Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

Experience

• 5+ years of professional

Benefits