Fig
Fig adds visual apps, shortcuts, and autocomplete to your terminal.
Frontend / Full Stack Engineer
About the role
Fig makes the terminal more productive and discoverable for developers. Despite being used by just about every developer, the terminal has barely changed since 70s. We think this is pretty crazy.
Fig is backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and a bunch of amazing devtools founders and executives.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Help building Fig apps like autocomplete, scripts, dotfiles, and access
- Our stack is Typescript, React/Next.js, Tailwind, Prisma
- Talk to users, ideate on new products, then build them
- Build Fig's component library
- Create delightful user experiences
Key Qualifications
- Typescript
- Strong familiarity with React (life cycle methods, state management, componentization)
- Strong familiarity with CSS fundamentals
- Experience architecting and maintaining large typescript apps
- Great design skills
- Familiarity with modern TS ecosystem (e.g. best practice tools for transpilation, bundling etc)
- Comfortable in the terminal
Bonus Points
- Strong familiarity with the shell
- Experience with Tailwind
- Experience with graphql and/or prisma
- Exceptional UX / UI skill
- Experience building typescript libraries and frameworks
- Experience building a developer tool (even if personal use)
About the Team
- We work in office!
- We are 50% internationals
- We all care deeply about great DX: developer experience
- We are self-directed and self-motivated but work collaboratively as much as possible
- We are a startup. We all wear many hats
- We build tools that solve our own problems. It turns out lots of developers have these problems too
- We guarantee you will laugh every day
About the interview
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15 min phone screen
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2x 45 min technical interviews
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Paid contract (we pay you to work on a project with us so we get to both feel what it's like working together. Range from 0.5 days to 2 weeks depending on what you can do)
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Offer
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Why you should join Fig
Fig is re-imagining the terminal.
Our first product is autocomplete. Under the hood, we have built an API that hooks into any terminal. We can do a ton of cool things, like this
Why Join Fig? Our mission is to make developers more productive. We want you to build tools that make you more productive. If you use these tools every day, chances are others will too.
If you join us, you’ll directly help shape:
- Our future company culture
- Our engineering practices
- The people that we hire
- The direction & focus of our products
