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San Francisco; Full Time; Onsite I'm the cofounder of Figma (https://www.figma.com https://www.figma.com), a startup in San Francisco building a browser-based

San Francisco; Full Time; Onsite I'm the cofounder of Figma (https://www.figma.com https://www.figma.com), a startup in San Francisco building a browser-based collaborative design tool to improve the way designers and developers work together. We're a small team (~30) and we're looking for talented engineers (https://www.figma.com/careers https://www.figma.com/careers) who are interested in tackling hard technical problems with smart people and building a product that startups will rely on. If you want to see what we value, you might find these interesting: - First principles thinking: https://medium.com/figma-design/introducing-vector-networks-3b877d2b864f https://medium.com/figma-design/introducing-vector-networks-... - Pushing the web to the limit: https://medium.com/figma-design/building-a-professional-design-tool-on-the-web-6332ed4f1fcc https://medium.com/figma-design/building-a-professional-desi... Upcoming/ongoing projects: - Develop a plugin ecosystem from the ground up - Build a community of design content and tools from scratch - Cross-document shared symbols - Multiplayer editing infrastructure (realtime simultaneous editing) Our tech stack: C++, Emscripten, WebAssembly, Node, TypeScript, React, WebGL, Ruby, Sinatra If you're interested in learning more about what we're working on or want to meet up to talk about any of my other projects (http://madebyevan.com/ http://madebyevan.com/), you can email me at wallace@figma.com.

eoghan 9y ago
Figma is awesome. Joining them would be a great idea.
icefo 9y ago
After reading your blog posts I'm wondering why you didn't write a standalone app. It sounds like you're making your life more complicated by doing that in the browser. You're doing it this way so you don't have to redevelop parts of the app for each platform ? But then you have to worry about cross browser compatibility. Anyway what you're doing is very interesting and I wish you good luck !
- icefo 9y ago
  Edit: should have read the product presentation before commenting. They explain why they decided to develop a web app and it makes sense.
nailer 9y ago
Hey Evan! We use Figma to produce a lot of the images in the CertSimple blog - we moved to Windows and needed something that could open our old .sketch files properly and started using it for new content. Some feedback: I understand it's a web app, but the download/native versions can be really confusing. Like I can't click on a .sketch file to open/import it to Figma, and I have to remember to 'import' files rather than 'open' them (maybe 'open and import' to communicate you're uploading them?). PS. I'd love it if you collaborated with the Invision people too.
mickrussom 9y ago
That tool looks really, really great. Vector networks.

eoghan 9y ago

Figma is awesome. Joining them would be a great idea.

icefo 9y ago

After reading your blog posts I'm wondering why you didn't write a standalone app. It sounds like you're making your life more complicated by doing that in the browser. You're doing it this way so you don't have to redevelop parts of the app for each platform ? But then you have to worry about cross browser compatibility. Anyway what you're doing is very interesting and I wish you good luck !

icefo 9y ago
Edit: should have read the product presentation before commenting. They explain why they decided to develop a web app and it makes sense.

nailer 9y ago

Hey Evan! We use Figma to produce a lot of the images in the CertSimple blog - we moved to Windows and needed something that could open our old .sketch files properly and started using it for new content. Some feedback: I understand it's a web app, but the download/native versions can be really confusing. Like I can't click on a .sketch file to open/import it to Figma, and I have to remember to 'import' files rather than 'open' them (maybe 'open and import' to communicate you're uploading them?). PS. I'd love it if you collaborated with the Invision people too.

mickrussom 9y ago

That tool looks really, really great. Vector networks.