Software Engineer Intern (Winter 2027)

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Join a small, collaborative engineering team and work closely with a mentor and teammates.
• Contribute to projects aligned with team goals and impact.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and QA partners to plan and deliver work.
• Build, document, and maintain tests, features, or infrastructure.
• Participate in peer code reviews and ship an internship project by the end of the program.

Engineering interests

• Product work may include full-stack user-facing features, collaboration tools, product workflows, and growth experiments.
• Platform and infrastructure work may include distributed systems, developer tooling, and performance or scalability projects.
• Security engineering may include security-focused systems, product security tooling, detection, secure infrastructure, or privacy features.

Candidate qualifications

• Experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language, such as C++, JavaScript, Python, or Java.
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience solving technical problems through school, work, or personal projects.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to write, debug, or optimize code.
• Strong communication, collaboration, curiosity, and willingness to learn and receive feedback.

Workplace and start date

• The internship will be based out of Figma's San Francisco or New York hub offices.
• The internship starts January 4, 2027.
• Hired interns must attend in-person onboarding.

Compensation

• The internship pays an hourly base rate of $55 USD.
• Figma also offers interns a housing stipend and travel reimbursement.