Roles
Staff Software Engineer - Frontend
San Francisco, CA
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About Us
Gamma is inventing a new way to present ideas. 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 30 million users, we're one of the top AI consumer apps, growing through word of mouth
💰 Profitable - and we've also raised $20M+, with Seed + Series A led by Accel
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 25 team members - we're a lean team that ships constantly
🌁 San Francisco based - most of us are in office ~3 days a week
What we're looking for
We're looking for an experienced frontend focused engineer to join our team of 5.
We're looking for candidates from diverse backgrounds who are interested in:
  • Developing the core foundation of a realtime collaborative web app using CRDTs and WebSockets
  • Building complex AI workflows into the product
  • Moving fast and shipping to production daily
  • Thinking about frontend performance as a top priority
  • Building sophisticated and performant drag and drop interfaces
  • Debugging thorny and complex bugs without much to go on
  • Reading and suggesting improvements to open source projects that are at the core of the Gamma web application
  • Building out integrations and embedded apps
Above all, we're looking for someone with a passion for JavaScript and creating awesome web apps. We care as much about your attitude and curiosity as your technical knowledge, and less about how long your resume is.
Requirements
Must Have
  • 8+ years experience as a frontend software engineer
  • A strong understanding of:
  • Modern JavaScript / TypeScript and ReactJS (w/hooks)
  • Asynchronous programming in JavaScript (promises, macro/micro tasks and the event loop, async/await, etc...)
  • The browser document object model and React's virtual DOM
  • How mutation observers and event propagation work
  • Experience with the state management in React, preferably with Redux
  • Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (e.g. you're capable of writing vanilla JS instead of using lodash or jQuery)
  • Experience working in large complex production scale frontend codebases
  • Experience working with mature APIs (REST or GraphQL)
Nice to Have
  • Experience with ProseMirror or other document editor frameworks
  • Experience with large language models and AI prompting
  • Experience programming with Typescript
  • Experience with Prisma and Apollo GraphQL
  • Contributions to open source projects (big or small)
  • Experience with websockets and realtime data synchronization
  • Experience with Node, NestJS, or Express
  • Experience with NextJS
Our Stack
While this role is frontend 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:
We also love prototyping using Codesandbox, like this:

CodeSandbox

clever-swartz-h92pv - CodeSandbox

clever-swartz-h92pv by zleach using @chakra-ui/react, @emotion/react, @emotion/styled, @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core, @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons, @fortawesome/react-fontawesome, @react-spring/web, chance, framer-motion

Why Gamma?
🚀 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 Team
We've got a team full of energy that enjoys everything from tennis to sewing to dogs to baseball to woodworking to cricket and more. Click on the photo below to meet each one of us and check out our Meet Team Gamma deck for some more details on us all 😃