Software Engineer Intern (London, United Kingdom) (Summer 2027)

About Figma

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you’re brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.

If you’re excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us.

Software Engineering Intern

We’re looking for software engineering interns who are excited to make an impact across different layers of our product and infrastructure. At Figma, we pair interns with teams that align with their skills and interests. This year, we invite you to share your interests from the start, so we can create the strongest possible match.

Our interns are embedded into small, collaborative engineering teams across the company. You’ll work closely with your mentor and teammates to ship meaningful features, tools, or systems. Whether you’re working on internal infrastructure or user-facing features, you’ll learn, contribute, and grow in a supportive environment.

This internship will be based out of our London Hub with a 5/3, 5/17, 6/1, or 6/14 start date.

Engineering Interests at Figma

When you apply, you’ll tell us which areas you’re most interested in to understand the kinds of engineering work you’re most excited about:

1. Product: Build full stack user facing features, including new collaboration tools, new product workflows, growth oriented experiments, and more
2. Platform/Infrastructure: Build platform level tools, including distributed systems, developer tooling, performance/scalability work, and more
3. Security Engineering: Build security-focused systems, product security tooling, detection, secure infrastructure, or privacy/security features
4. Open: I’m flexible and still exploring different types of work

What You’ll Do

• Join a small engineering team as a full member of the team, with your own project and mentor
• Contribute to projects that directly align with team goals and impact
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and QA to break down features and plan timelines
• Build, document, and maintain tests, features, or infrastructure
• Share feedback and participate in peer code review
• Ship your project(s) by the end of your internship

Some Past Intern Projects

• Diagramming improvements in FigJam
• Smart selection
• Shared fonts

Qualifications

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience writing clean code in at least one general-purpose language (e.g., C++, JavaScript, Python, Java, etc.), with a solid grasp of core CS concepts like data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving technical problems through school, work, or personal projects
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to write, debug, and optimize code
• Demonstrated curiosity about how systems are designed and operate, from infrastructure to UI
• Strong communication skills: asks great questions, collaborates well with others, and is excited to learn, get feedback, and grow as an engineer

Equal Opportunity and Accessibility

Figma celebrates and supports differences. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace, dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Figma will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, contact accommodations-ext@figma.com.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication is compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates to keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired, you will be required to attend in person onboarding.