Figma is a startup in San Francisco building a browser-based collaborative design tool to improve the way designers and developers work together. We are hiring talented engineers across the stack who are interested in tackling hard technical problems with smart people and building a product that startups will rely on. We push the boundaries of web technology and have redefined what applications in browsers are capable of.
Could you share a bit about what things that are upcoming that you're excited about? From the outside the product seems "done", but it never really is. But none of the postings you have on the website talks about what I would be working on. Feels a bit like a waste of time unless you share some more around what people would actually work on.
I'd be very happy to chat & share our ongoing and wishlist projects. Feel free to drop me an email at rudi@figma.com. It's just that exciting projects tend to map 1:1 to our product roadmap, which I prefer not to randomly share in a HN comment.
I will say though that from my perspective as an employee, we are far far far from done. I always feel like we have 10x the feature requests at any given time than we have the capability to work on. Design tools in general have been pretty neglected until fairly recently and are far behind developer tools. There are tons of low hanging fruits that translate directly into hours saved for designers.
We have exactly one service written in Rust, our multiplayer server. This server needs to hold documents in-memory that can get quite large, and Rust's memory management + concurrency capabilities were well suited for the problem. It's explained here: https://www.figma.com/blog/rust-in-production-at-figma/
Figma is a startup in San Francisco building a browser-based collaborative design tool to improve the way designers and developers work together. We are hiring talented engineers across the stack who are interested in tackling hard technical problems with smart people and building a product that startups will rely on. We push the boundaries of web technology and have redefined what applications in browsers are capable of.
For examples of challenges that we solved, you may find our blog post interesting: https://www.figma.com/blog/section/engineering/
We're hiring product, security, and infrastructure engineers and leaders across a number of teams and roles: https://www.figma.com/careers/
Our front-end tech stack: TypeScript, React, C++, WebAssembly, WebGL
Our back-end tech stack: Ruby, Sinatra, Go, Rust