Software Engineer, Frontend

FIGS

1d•$150,000 - $175,000

About The Position

Join our growing Engineering team to expand and scale our ever-evolving e-commerce platform! FIGS is looking for an exceptional Software Engineer who can help us architect and drive our frontend roadmap forward. Our current frontend experience is a server-side rendered Next.js React site built with Typescript, Styled Components, GraphQL and Apollo Client. We use Shopify to manage our shopping cart and checkout process, and have a mandate to grow on top of and beyond it as we need to.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience or education
3+ years professionally working on frontend applications
Familiarity with leveraging automated solutions like unit tests, end-to-end tests, tracing, and data observability to ensure application and code quality
Extensive experience with JavaScript and Typescript
A commanding knowledge of HTML, CSS, and building rich user experiences with them
Prior experience with SPA frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, or Angular
Experience using a web framework like Next.js or Nuxt in a production environment
Awareness of WCAG 2.1 guidelines and best practices
Awareness of challenges around creating accessible websites and React components
Demonstrated ability to contribute to scalable and maintainable front-end JavaScript applications

Nice To Haves

Experience with building and maintaining headless Shopify sites
Experience in building and maintaining an enterprise design system
Experience with GitHub and CI/CD processes and pipelines
Knowledge of headless CMS platforms like Contentful or Strapi
Familiarity with DevOps technologies like CircleCI, Docker, AWS CDK, and Kubernetes
Understanding of configuring ESLint, Prettier, TypeScript, Yarn, Lerna, and other TypeScript infrastructure

Responsibilities

Work as an engineer on projects led by others and grow your experience by leading projects yourself
Participate in software and system design conversations with peer engineers
Partner with our Product, Design, and Backend Engineering teams to:
Define and build out our core theming and reusable component libraries
Define and help implement core data models that will power our presentation layer APIs
Build customer-facing frontend applications and features to help our customers better use our site

Benefits

Equity: All FIGS employees have the opportunity to own shares of FIGS stock through our new-hire equity program. Additionally, FIGS provides a discount when purchasing FIGS stock voluntarily through our FIGS Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Annual bonus: This position is eligible to participate in the FIGS annual bonus program
Other compensation and benefits offered include:
Comprehensive benefits and perks package focused on your well-being, including premium medical, dental and vision coverage, and full access to wellness services through Breethe and Classpass. 100% FIGS-sponsored life insurance and disability insurance
Amazing 401(k) program, with a company match up to the first 6% of your contribution
Generous paid time off - We have 12 company holidays. For salaried team members, we offer flexible vacation. For our hourly team members, we offer up to 3 weeks of accrued vacation
Meaningful time away for baby bonding, including parental leave, new parent care meals, and a transition back to work for primary caregivers
FIGS sponsored Uber Eats voucher for in-office weeks
Personalized discount code for 50% off all FIGS products, along with a separate code to share with family and friends to enjoy a 25% discount site-wide
Access to FIGS Vet, Discounted Pet Daycare, Discounted Pet Insurance, and so much more…