Software Engineer, iOS

Role Description

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.

The Mobile Product team supports Figma's powerful companion apps for iOS and Android. We are looking for new team members who value collaboration, usability, and excellence to maintain and build new features for the Figma iOS app. You'll work closely with your engineering peers to chart out upcoming work and how best to execute on it. You'll brainstorm with cross-functional partners (design, product, research, data science) to deliver delightful mobile experiences to Figma's users.

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:

• Work with PMs, designers, and other engineers to bring Figma's most popular features to iPhone and iPad
• Use Apple technologies like Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit
• Participate in user research and testing to better understand our customers
• Share responsibility for testing, releasing, and maintaining our mobile apps
• Communicate and document architectural designs and requirements
• Provide thoughtful feedback to others on the team
• Help interview and recruit more talented engineers to Figma

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience building iOS applications
• Extensive understanding of mobile product development practices
• Proactive communication skills and a desire to work in a collaborative environment with iOS, Android, and web engineers
• Demonstrated ability to write maintainable, performant code that delivers real user value
• Strong product sense and desire to deeply understand users
• Enthusiasm for mentoring other engineers and helping shape engineering culture

Requirements

• Experience as a tech lead or project lead in delivering mobile first experiences that complement a web-based feature set (not required)
• Familiarity with web development languages and technologies like Typescript, React, Python, Ruby, etc (not required)
• Comfort with doing first draft UI designs in code that use established mobile UI/UX patterns (not required)
• Experience with one or more of the following complementary areas: Android app development, writing and maintaining API endpoints for mobile apps, instrumenting user behavior metrics and creating visualizations to show trends (not required)

Benefits

• Equity to employees
• Health, dental & vision benefits
• Retirement with company contribution
• Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support
• Mental health & wellness benefits
• Generous PTO
• Company recharge days
• Learning & development stipend
• Work from home stipend
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Sales incentive pay for most sales roles
• Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles

Company Description

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 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.