gamma.app
Senior+ Backend Engineer
gamma.app, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Gamma is inventing a new way to present ideas, powered by AI.
We're building at the forefront of generative AI to automate all the hard parts of designing a beautiful presentation and developing a stunning website. We help millions of people express themselves, making content creation feel effortless.A bit more about us:Over 10 million users , all driven by word-of-mouthProfitable
- and we've also raised $20M+, with Seed + Series A led by Accel16 team members
- we're a lean team that ships constantlySan Francisco based
- most of us are in office ~3 days a weekWhat we're looking forWe're seeking an experienced backend engineer to join our team. We're looking for candidates from diverse backgrounds who are interested in:Scaling our systems to millions of users while maintaining high performance and availabilityMoving fast and shipping to production dailyWorking on both dev-ops type projects and application featuresThinking about infrastructure scaling and performance as top prioritiesDebugging thorny and complex bugs without much to go onAbove all, we're looking for someone with a passion for building APIs, scaling complex systems, and creating awesome web apps. We care as much about your attitude and curiosity as your technical knowledge and experience working in large scale production systems.What you'll be working onOver the past year or so, we've grown from a private beta serving hundreds of active users to a hot AI tool growing faster every day with millions of users hitting our servers from around the world at all hours of the day. Gamma.app never sleeps!You'll be responsible for building out new APIs, designing new data models and schemas, and helping brainstorm ways to engineer more performantly. We've also had our fair share of scaling challenges and are looking for someone with a passion for ramping up and hardening our services to handle the next order of magnitude of load. From Kafka pipelines to real-time AI streaming to live subscription updates as data changes, you'll be figuring out where the bottlenecks and system risks are and leading efforts to scale them up.RequirementsThis position is an onsite role in San Francisco with a hybrid flexible work culture. You'll be expected to come in to our Potrero Hill office 2-3 days per week with a schedule that works best for you.Must Have5+ years experience as a software engineerA degree in computer science or related fieldLarge and complex
relational databases
at scaleService oriented architecturesRunning NodeJS systems at scaleHTTP and Websocket communication protocolsExperience writing and maintaining highly-available web APIsExperience with large scale event streaming systems, preferably Apache KafkaExperience working in large complex production scale codebasesNice to HaveExperience with AI prompting and large language modelsAI is a core part of our application and all engineers contribute to these featuresExperience programming with TypescriptExperience with Prisma and Apollo GraphQLAbility to write complex SQL queries to help us understand our dataExperience with high throughput data warehouse pipelinesExperience with Terraform and AWS ServicesOur StackWhile this role is backend focused, you'll inevitably be working across the entire product. Fortunately, we're building a full Typescript stack centered around some of the most modern and popular technologies:Get in on the ground floor . You'll be joining early enough to set the course of our company and change how millions of people around the world express themselves.Generous compensation and benefits.
We're well funded and offer medical, dental, and vision benefits.Experienced mentors and peers.
We've all seen success and failure and care deeply about building a sustainable culture and business.Unlimited PTO.
We're flexible and encourage everyone to take time off as needed.Family friendly.
We offer 3 months parental leave and flexible hours.A beautiful office in sunny Potrero Hill.
There's ample parking and great restaurants nearby.The TeamWe've got a team full of energy that enjoys everything from tennis to sewing to dogs to baseball to woodworking to cricket and more.
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We're building at the forefront of generative AI to automate all the hard parts of designing a beautiful presentation and developing a stunning website. We help millions of people express themselves, making content creation feel effortless.A bit more about us:Over 10 million users , all driven by word-of-mouthProfitable
- and we've also raised $20M+, with Seed + Series A led by Accel16 team members
- we're a lean team that ships constantlySan Francisco based
- most of us are in office ~3 days a weekWhat we're looking forWe're seeking an experienced backend engineer to join our team. We're looking for candidates from diverse backgrounds who are interested in:Scaling our systems to millions of users while maintaining high performance and availabilityMoving fast and shipping to production dailyWorking on both dev-ops type projects and application featuresThinking about infrastructure scaling and performance as top prioritiesDebugging thorny and complex bugs without much to go onAbove all, we're looking for someone with a passion for building APIs, scaling complex systems, and creating awesome web apps. We care as much about your attitude and curiosity as your technical knowledge and experience working in large scale production systems.What you'll be working onOver the past year or so, we've grown from a private beta serving hundreds of active users to a hot AI tool growing faster every day with millions of users hitting our servers from around the world at all hours of the day. Gamma.app never sleeps!You'll be responsible for building out new APIs, designing new data models and schemas, and helping brainstorm ways to engineer more performantly. We've also had our fair share of scaling challenges and are looking for someone with a passion for ramping up and hardening our services to handle the next order of magnitude of load. From Kafka pipelines to real-time AI streaming to live subscription updates as data changes, you'll be figuring out where the bottlenecks and system risks are and leading efforts to scale them up.RequirementsThis position is an onsite role in San Francisco with a hybrid flexible work culture. You'll be expected to come in to our Potrero Hill office 2-3 days per week with a schedule that works best for you.Must Have5+ years experience as a software engineerA degree in computer science or related fieldLarge and complex
relational databases
at scaleService oriented architecturesRunning NodeJS systems at scaleHTTP and Websocket communication protocolsExperience writing and maintaining highly-available web APIsExperience with large scale event streaming systems, preferably Apache KafkaExperience working in large complex production scale codebasesNice to HaveExperience with AI prompting and large language modelsAI is a core part of our application and all engineers contribute to these featuresExperience programming with TypescriptExperience with Prisma and Apollo GraphQLAbility to write complex SQL queries to help us understand our dataExperience with high throughput data warehouse pipelinesExperience with Terraform and AWS ServicesOur StackWhile this role is backend focused, you'll inevitably be working across the entire product. Fortunately, we're building a full Typescript stack centered around some of the most modern and popular technologies:Get in on the ground floor . You'll be joining early enough to set the course of our company and change how millions of people around the world express themselves.Generous compensation and benefits.
We're well funded and offer medical, dental, and vision benefits.Experienced mentors and peers.
We've all seen success and failure and care deeply about building a sustainable culture and business.Unlimited PTO.
We're flexible and encourage everyone to take time off as needed.Family friendly.
We offer 3 months parental leave and flexible hours.A beautiful office in sunny Potrero Hill.
There's ample parking and great restaurants nearby.The TeamWe've got a team full of energy that enjoys everything from tennis to sewing to dogs to baseball to woodworking to cricket and more.
#J-18808-Ljbffr