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

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're inviting 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 get to 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 help us understand which kinds of engineering work you're most excited about:

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

What you'll do at Figma:

• 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

• 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 communicator who asks great questions, collaborates well with others, and is excited to learn, get feedback, and grow as an engineer

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are 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.

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