Software Engineer Intern (Winter 2027)

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figmas platform helps teams bring ideas to lifewhether youre 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 youre excited to shape the future of design and collaboration join us!

Were looking for software engineering interns who are excited to make an impact across different layers of our product and infrastructure. At Figma we pair interns with teams that align with their skills and interests. This year were inviting you to share your interests from the start so we can create the strongest possible match.

Our interns are embedded into small collaborative engineering teams across the company. Youll work closely with your mentor and teammates to ship meaningful features tools or systems. Whether youre working on internal infrastructure or user-facing features youll get to learn contribute and grow in a supportive environment.

This internship will be based out of our San Francisco or New York Hub with a January 4 2027 start date.

When you apply youll tell us which areas youre most interested in to help us understand which kinds of engineering work youre most excited about:

1. Product: Build full stack user facing features including new collaboration tools new product workflows growth oriented experiments and more
2. Platform/Infrastructure: Build platform level tools including distributed systems developer tooling performance/scalability work and more
3. Security Engineering: Build security-focused systems product security tooling detection secure infrastructure or privacy/security features
4. Open: Im flexible and still exploring different types of work

• Be fully embedded onto a Figma engineering team
• Contribute to projects that directly align with team goals and impact
• Collaborate with engineers PMs designers and QA to break down features and plan timelines
• Build document and maintain tests features or infrastructure
• Share feedback and participate in peer code review
• Ship your project(s) by the end of your internship!

• Diagramming improvements in FigJam
• Smart selection
• Shared fonts

• Experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. C JavaScript Python Java etc.) with a solid grasp of core CS concepts like data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving technical problems through school work or personal projects
• Are excited to explore how systems are designed and operate from infrastructure to UI
• Strong communicator who asks great questions collaborates well with others and is excited to learn get feedback and grow as an engineer

At Figma one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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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Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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