# Software Engineer - Application Platform

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

- **Id**: 3880961
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/figma-software-engineer-application-platform-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T17:11:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T22:47:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7843
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Internet reimbursement, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Design, Design & Prototyping Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 2804
- **Name**: Figma
- **Domain**: figma.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/figma>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 118
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.305
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 78
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 235000
- **Max**: 376000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 376000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Figma** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Modularization** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **Sinatra** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T18:05:23Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 76 · green card filings: 15; Filings 12m: 76

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 78
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T03:14:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 376000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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