Remote Manager, Software Engineering - Developer Tools (London, United Kingdom) in Scunthorpe

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. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Developer Tools team at Figma. This team is building solutions targeting mainly frontend and full stack developers, helping them bring products from idea to production faster than ever. You’ll also be responsible for helping define the future of our developer offering, very likely helping incubate and lead new product development. Developer tools is a major initiative at Figma and is spearheaded from the London office. You’ll be working on one of the most exciting areas within Figma incorporating design thinking, the latest AI developments, and open source developer tooling.

This is a full time role that can be held from our London hub or remotely in the UK.

• Manage and support a team of product engineers focused on building and expanding Figma’s developer offerings.
• Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to coordinate work across product, design, engineering, and other functions.
• Recruit, mentor and retain high performing engineers (and help with other cross functional roles).
• You’ll foster a culture of innovation, collaboration and taking calculated risks.

Figma is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and culture. We expect all of our leaders to play a role in helping to build and drive these initiatives through hiring, community events, and other programs in partnership with teams across all of Figma.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience managing software engineers working on products used by external users.
• A proven track record of building products (both as a manager and individual contributor) that are best in class in user experience.
• A relentless focus on business impact through product & engineering excellence.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team.
• Experience building large scale systems using React, C++, and/or Ruby.
• Experience building & maintaining open source software and/or libraries for developers.

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 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: enabling closed captioning on video conferencing.

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