Software Engineer, Product Frontend (8+ YOE)

Lyft

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Luxury team builds rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride sharing industry. We are looking for a motivated staff engineer to join us building app experiences, UIs, and infrastructure for Black, Black SUV, and other upmarket modes for which quality is uncompromising. Ownership is a key quality for this team; you should be driven to track a project to successful completion and beyond, taking initiative to work with other teams and functions to ensure the code you write reaches users and drives impact. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a critical technical leader across backend, frontend, iOS, and Android, taking holistic ownership of complex systems, defining strategic roadmaps, driving cross-functional alignment and engineering excellence to improve the luxury experience. You'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers.    RESPONSIBILITIES: * Shape the long-term architecture for full-stack systems, taking accountability for both short-term functionality and long-term health. * Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects. Own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks. * Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt reduction, extending your influence beyond your immediate team. * Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health. Take holistic ownership of the platform's stability, tracking down issue root causes and building preventive safeguards for your immediate scope and beyond. * Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities. * Mentor and level up the engineers around you. Delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of strong technical excellence. * Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft’s broader internal engineering community. EXPERIENCE: * 8+ years of software engineering industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership and system ownership.  * Experience developing mobile apps and can guide client-server and iOS/Android decision making. * Deep expertise in designing, debugging, and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems. * Demonstrated experience driving technical roadmaps, managing cross-team dependencies, and influencing system architecture at an organizational level. * Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, and NoSQL databases. * Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure) and modern container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, cri-o). * Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. BENEFITS: * Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled * Mental health benefits * Family building benefits * Child care and pet benefits * 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future * In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off * 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible * Subsidized commuter benefits * Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $176,000 - $220,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

Figma

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! As a Software Engineer, you'll work on some of the most technically challenging and impactful parts of our product. You will be developing high-performance client-side systems in C++/WebAssembly, extending the multiplayer protocols that make collaborative design possible, and building out the communications layer between C++ and Javascript. Your contributions will help push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. You'll also help shape our user experience by building features that are fast, accessible, and intuitive—even in the face of complex data models and intermittent connectivity. This is a highly collaborative role: you'll partner closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to plan, build, and iterate on features that serve millions of users around the world. Whether you're optimizing our core engine, building authoring tools, or crafting new platform abstractions, your work will be key to advancing the future of design. This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. WHAT YOU’LL DO AT FIGMA: * Build core features and frontend infrastructure in a real-time, multiplayer system with a complex in-memory data model (SceneGraph) * Optimize performance and memory usage to deliver a fast, reliable UX in the browser using C++/WebAssembly and TypeScript * Extend our core C++ engine and multiplayer protocols to support scalable design systems, branching/merging flows, and advanced collaboration modes * Design and build APIs and tooling to allow product teams to build against our platform with ease and confidence * Contribute to accessibility strategy and implementation, ensuring our tools are usable by all * Collaborate regularly with cross-functional partners across product, design, and engineering to plan and execute high-impact projects * Write clear, maintainable code and documentation, and contribute to architectural decisions * Mentor and support other engineers through pairing, code review, and feedback * Help drive recruitment and shape our inclusive, high-performance engineering culture WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE: * 4+ years of professional Software Engineering experience shipping user-facing features or products * Strong programming skills in one or more languages relevant to our frontend such as TypeScript, C++, React, Go, Rust, or Python * Experience working with web-based applications, browser performance, or real-time collaborative systems * A track record of working collaboratively across teams and disciplines to deliver complex technical projects WHILE IT’S NOT REQUIRED, IT’S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE: * 2+ years of experience in a technical lead role, especially across multiple teams * Experience with game engines, rendering systems, or other performance-critical applications * Background in developer platforms or API design * Familiarity with WebAssembly, browser internals, or C++ in a frontend context * Passion for crafting collaborative tools and creative workflows * A strong product mindset and attention to user experience * A commitment to continuous learning, inclusion, and helping others grow 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 you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t 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. Pay Transparency Disclosure If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.     Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.  Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.  Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Annual Base Salary Range: $153,000—$376,000 USD 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. We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.  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. By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

Figma

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! As a Full Stack Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to build both the products and the platforms that empower millions of users—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—to create and collaborate in real time. Whether you’re designing core features, improving developer workflows, scaling enterprise infrastructure, or launching entirely new products, your work will directly shape the future of how teams bring ideas to life. You’ll take on complex technical challenges across the stack, building intuitive user experiences, optimizing performance in real-time collaborative systems, and designing secure, reliable, and scalable systems to support Figma’s rapid growth and global expansion.   Our engineers are highly cross-functional, partnering closely with Product, Design, Research, and Data to deliver best-in-class experiences. If you’re excited to work across the stack, push the boundaries of product development, and help scale the systems that power Figma, we’d love for you to join us.   This opportunity applies to openings at varying seniority levels across our teams, including but not limited to Figma Editor, FigJam, Figma Slides, Figma Sites, Figma Buzz, Growth & Monetization, Internal Tools, Frontend Platform, and our cross-product Foundations team. We’ll discuss more specifics about open roles during the interview process.   This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.   What you’ll do at Figma: * Design, build, and ship high-quality features across the stack, from polished front-end experiences to scalable back-end systems * Contribute to both new product development and improvements to established products, balancing user experience craft with performance and architecture quality * Own projects end-to-end — ideation, technical design, implementation, testing, launch, and iteration * Collaborate with cross-functional partners in Product, Design, Research, and Data to shape product direction and strategy * Operate, monitor, and continuously improve the systems you build, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and scalability * Mentor teammates, contribute to team culture, and share knowledge through code reviews, design critiques, and pairing We’d love to hear from you if you have: * Proven experience in shipping and maintaining full-stack applications in production * Strong proficiency in modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React/TypeScript) and back-end technologies (e.g., Ruby, Python, Go, C++, PostgreSQL) * A product mindset, with the ability to translate user needs into scalable technical solutions * Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience working effectively across cross-functional teams * Passion for engineering craft and building polished, maintainable, and scalable systems While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: * Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to write, debug, and optimize code * Familiarity with C++ and WebAssembly in user-facing applications * Background in areas such as growth engineering, frontend platform work (build systems, web performance, shared UI/component infrastructure), developer tooling, billing and payments infrastructure, or extensibility platforms (plugins, APIs, widgets) * Exposure to technologies like Stripe, Salesforce, Snowflake, SCIM, SAML, or experimentation and observability tooling * Experience leading large-scale projects or launching 0→1 products, with a passion for mentoring peers and shaping engineering culture 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 you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t 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. Pay Transparency Disclosure If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.     Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.  Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.  Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Annual Base Salary Range: $153,000—$376,000 USD 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. We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.  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. By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.