Software Engineer - Application Platform

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Software Engineer - Application Platform in USA

Figma
Full time
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USA
08/18/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

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 supporting critical product functionality.
Modernize the Ruby codebase by moving REST APIs from Sinatra toward Rails and introducing stronger endpoint abstractions and type safety.
Improve hot reloading, local workflows, test infrastructure, CI reliability, debugging tools, and iteration speed.
Strengthen scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery for the asynchronous job platform.
Partner with product engineers and Infrastructure teams to identify recurring pain points and build reusable platform capabilities.
Establish engineering practices through shared libraries, APIs, documentation, tooling, code review, and technical guidance.
Mentor engineers and contribute to high technical standards and shared ownership.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years building production systems with Ruby.
Experience building, maintaining, and evolving large Ruby applications and shared backend codebases used by multiple engineering teams.
Experience designing reliable distributed systems at production scale, including APIs, background processing, testing, observability, and operations.
Experience improving established systems through architecture, modularization, migrations, performance, reliability, or developer tooling.
Ability to create scalable abstractions, navigate technical tradeoffs, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers.
Experience with background-job or workflow systems, including retries, idempotency, scheduling, backpressure, isolation, and failure recovery, is a plus.
Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, Temporal, Kubernetes, or Terraform is a plus.
Experience improving test performance, local development environments, CI systems, or large-scale code migrations is a plus.

Benefits

Full-time role available from a US hub or remotely within the United States.
Health, dental, and vision coverage.
Retirement benefits with company contributions.
Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support.
Mental health and wellness benefits.
Paid time off, paid sick leave, holidays, and other applicable leave benefits.
Flexible paid time off and flexible paid sick leave for eligible exempt employees.
Potential company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts.
Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales employees.
In-person onboarding is required if hired.

Salary: $153k - $376k/yr

Figma

Figma is a company that offers a cloud-based design and prototyping tool for digital designers and teams to build together. In the design services industry, it allows multiple users to collaborate in real-time on designing interfaces, websites, applications, and other digital products.

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