Software Engineer, Frontend (SDE2)

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. 

What you'll do:

• 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

Qualifications:

• 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

Bonus points for:

• 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

What You’ll Bring:

• Excellent communication skills
• Collaboration: we work in small cross-functional teams and as individual engineers. We are not afraid of challenges and working together to tackle them
• Positive attitude: we are self-starters who love to solve problems with technologies
• A strong work ethic, integrity, and an ownership mindset

FIGS Compensation and Benefits

Pay Range

• At FIGS, your base salary is one part of your total compensation package. This role's base salary range is between $150,000 and $175,000. Actual base salary is determined based on a number of factors, including but not limited to your relevant skills, qualifications, and years of experience. 

Additional Compensation and 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…

*Benefits eligibility is determined by hour requirements and length of service 

A little bit about us…

FIGS, Inc. is a founder-led, direct-to-consumer healthcare apparel and lifestyle brand that seeks to celebrate, empower and serve current and future generations of healthcare professionals. We redefine what scrubs are by creating technically advanced apparel and products that feature an unmatched combination of comfort, durability, function and style, all at an affordable price. With the largest DTC platform in healthcare apparel, we sell our products to a rapidly growing community of loyal customers. Through these customer relationships, FIGS has built a community and lifestyle around a profession, revolutionizing the large and fragmented healthcare apparel market and becoming the industry’s category-defining healthcare apparel and lifestyle brand.

Our Threads for Threads initiative is integral to our mission to improve the lives of healthcare professionals on a global scale. Founded alongside FIGS in 2013, Threads for Threads donates scrubs to healthcare professionals working in resource-poor countries around the world.