Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)
Figma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY
About this role
**Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)** 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. We’re looking for software engineering interns who are excited to make an impact across different layers of our product and infrastructure. Interns are embedded into small, collaborative engineering teams across the company. You’ll work closely with your mentor and teammates to ship meaningful features, tools, or systems—whether internal infrastructure or user-facing features. **Location & Start Dates** - Based out of our **San Francisco or New York Hub** - Start date: **5/3, 5/17, 6/1, or 6/14** **Engineering Interests (choose what you’re most excited about)** - **Product:** Full stack user-facing features (collaboration tools, product workflows, growth experiments, and more) - **Platform/Infrastructure:** Distributed systems, developer tooling, performance/scalability, and more - **Security Engineering:** Security-focused systems, product security tooling, detection, secure infrastructure, privacy/security features - **Open:** Flexible—still exploring different types of work **What you’ll do at Figma** - Be fully embedded on a Figma engineering team - Contribute to projects aligned 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 **Some past intern projects** - [Diagramming improvements in FigJam](https://x.com/peterdpong/status/1554514887052693504?s=21&t=WNnRrJF5DRxo0EcNopDj1Q) - [Smart selection](https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-smart-selection/) - [Shared fonts](https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039956774-Upload-custom-fonts-to-an-organization) **We’d love to hear from you if you have** - 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 (data structures & algorithms) - Experience solving technical problems through school, work, or personal projects - Excitement to explore how systems are designed and operate (from infrastructure to UI) - Strong communication: asks great questions, collaborates well, and is excited to learn, get feedback, and grow **Pay Transparency** - Hourly base pay: **$55–$55 USD** - Housing stipend and travel reimbursement (interns) **Equal Opportunity & Accommodations** Figma is an **equal opportunity workplace** and is dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of protected characteristics. Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities. If you require accommodation, please reach out: **accommodations-ext@figma.com** **Interview Note** To help ensure the integrity of the hiring process, candidates are required to keep their cameras on during video interviews. If hired, you’ll be required to attend in-person onboarding.
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