Join Figma as a senior backend engineer to enhance Ruby frameworks and improve backend systems for product functionality.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 8 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Software Engineer for the Application Platform at Figma focuses on designing and enhancing shared Ruby frameworks that support critical backend functionalities, including REST APIs and workflow orchestration. The position requires substantial experience with Ruby and a strong understanding of building scalable, reliable systems, as well as the ability to improve existing codebases and developer tools. Ideal candidates will have over five years of software engineering experience, particularly in environments that prioritize collaboration and mentorship. Figma's commitment to making design accessible is reflected in its collaborative culture and emphasis on continuous learnin
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze August 19, 2026. Last confirmed on Figma's careers page October 8, 2026.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 14% of 114 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $173,000 across 57 companies). See AWS salary trends
- AWS appears in 31.9% of 496 comparable senior backend roles in United States; REST APIs appears in 0.4% of 496 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineer - Application Platform role remote?
- Yes — Figma lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Figma lists $153,000–$376,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer - Application Platform role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Kubernetes, REST APIs, Ruby, Terraform, asynchronous jobs.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Figma targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer - Application Platform role at Figma.
From the original posting
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!
Application Platform is part of Product Platform within Figma’s Infrastructure organization. We build shared foundations that help engineers ship backend product work quickly, safely, and reliably. The team owns a large Ruby application that powers Figma’s REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, and workflow orchestration. Our systems sit on critical production paths and shape the day-to-day experience of backend engineers across Figma.
We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer with meaningful production Ruby experience who enjoys building for other engineers. You don’t need to be a Ruby language specialist. You should be comfortable making informed tradeoffs in a substantial shared codebase and turning recurring problems into durable systems, tools, and paved paths that improve engineering velocity across the company.
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What you’ll do at Figma:
- Design and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access
- Improve the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems that support critical product functionality
- Modernize a large Ruby codebase through safe architectural changes, including moving REST APIs from Sinatra toward Rails and introducing stronger endpoint abstractions and type safety
- Make backend development faster by improving hot reloading, local workflows, test infrastructure, CI reliability, debugging tools, and iteration speed
- Strengthen the scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery capabilities of Figma’s asynchronous job platform
- Partner with product engineers—your customers—and Infrastructure teams to identify recurring pain points and turn them into reusable platform capabilities
- Establish pragmatic engineering practices through shared libraries, APIs, documentation, tooling, code review, and technical guidance
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to a culture of thoughtful execution, high technical standards, and shared ownership
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
- Bring 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production systems with Ruby
- Build, maintain, and evolve large Ruby applications and shared backend codebases that support multiple engineering teams
- Design reliable distributed systems at production scale, including APIs, background processing, testing, observability, and operations
- Improve complex, established systems through architecture, modularization, migrations, performance, reliability, or developer tooling
- Create scalable abstractions, navigate technical tradeoffs, and collaborate with and mentor engineers across teams
While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
- Experience with background-job or workflow systems, including retries, idempotency, scheduling, backpressure, isolation, and failure recovery
- Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, workflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform
- Experience improving test performance, local development environments, CI systems, or large-scale code migrations
Pay Transparency Disclosure
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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