About 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

About the role

Skills: TypeScript

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

Technology

Swift/Objective-C/C for our macOS app. Our pseudoterminal, window management, CLI, and our menu are written in combinations of these languages. We also make heavy use of macOS accessibility APIs.

Typescript/Javascript for all of our apps (including autocomplete). We use React to build autocomplete. Our bash parser and arg parser are written in Javascript. Fig's Autocomplete specs are in Typescript. Our website is Next.js and we have a simple Express backend. We are in the process of shifting to Typescript.

A lot of shell, CLIs, and systems We wrote integrations with bash, zsh, and fish in their respective languages. Our autocomplete app has to integrate with just about every CLI tool... We also go deep into signals, processes, and file descriptors.

Interview Process

15 min phone screen
2x 45 min technical interviews
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)
Offer

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