Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Figma’s External Platform team builds and operates the MCP, REST API, and gateway integrations that enable customers to build on and with Figma. The Engineering Manager will lead a team developing reliable, extensible infrastructure for Figma’s AI products and partner with customers and internal leaders on technical strategy and execution.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and support a team of engineers building foundational infrastructure for Figma’s AI products
- Partner with customers, engineering and product leaders from across Figma to define the team’s technical strategy and manage the day-to-day project execution
- Hire, coach, and develop senior and staff engineers to scale the team
- Roll up your sleeves to engage deeply with technical details and decisions as needed in order to help the team deliver on a robust AI platform with urgency
- Build an inclusive team and culture through thoughtful team-building and hiring practices
Skills
- 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing, fast-moving teams
- 8+ years of total engineering experience
- Experience managing platform teams with a focus on reliability and extensibility
- A proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and growing experienced engineering leads
- Experience building and scaling engineering teams and org structure as they grow
- Ideally in the AI platform space
- Ideally reaching a staff engineering level as an individual contributor
- Experience with MCP Infrastructure and integrations
- Experience with LLM, AI gateways
- A background in adjacent infrastructure domains
Benefits
- Equity
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits with company contributions
- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations
- Exempt employees are eligible for employer-provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave; PTO is subject to manager approval
- Company recharge days
- Cell phone and home internet reimbursements
- Lifestyle spending accounts
- Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles
- An annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
- Remote work on the East Coast of the United States
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