About us
We're building the creative layer for modern communication. Every month, over a billion people make presentations — but the tools they use to make them haven't evolved in decades. We're changing that, using AI to disrupt a massive market.
📈 Millions of people rely on Gamma to create, teach, and persuade, creating more than 1 million gammas every day.
💻 We see Gamma as the next great workplace tool, combining viral B2C love with a massive B2B opportunity. We believe AI can be a true creative partner: one that understands context, clarity, and taste.
💸 We’ve reached a $2.1B valuation, crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue, and have been profitable since 2023.
💙 We're an imaginative, passionate team who takes our work seriously, but not ourselves. Our culture is warm, a little quirky, and fueled by curiosity.
About the role
You'll lead the development of high-craft, intuitive AI features that power Gamma's presentation product, shipping complex systems that millions of users rely on every day. This means owning AI-powered features end-to-end, from architecture to reliability to performance, while shaping Gamma's technical future in AI and product. You'll build sophisticated experiences that make AI feel effortless, working across the full stack to deliver features that delight users.
As a Staff Engineer, you'll balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You'll design systems that handle real-time collaboration and AI at scale, elevate engineering quality and effectiveness across the team, and influence technical strategy alongside engineering leadership. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies including CRDTs, LLMs, image models, and streaming, building the foundation for how millions of people create with AI.
Our team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4–5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay creative and connected, with flexibility to work from home when focus matters most.
What you'll do
- Ship high-craft, intuitive AI features (including agents) that power Gamma's presentation product
- Own these systems end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability as we grow to hundreds of millions of users
- Design and implement sophisticated AI workflows that integrate LLMs and image models seamlessly into real-time collaborative experiences
- Elevate engineering quality and effectiveness across the team through code reviews, mentorship, and establishing best practices
- Shape Gamma's technical future in AI and product, influencing architecture decisions and technical strategy
- Build systems that balance security, usability, and performance at massive scale
What you'll bring
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 1 year building AI-powered products
- Deep expertise building complex, collaborative, real-time web applications with TypeScript and React
- Prior experience working with CRDTs/YJS, LLMs and image models, WebSockets, and streaming technologies
- Ability to design systems that balance security, usability, and performance at scale
- Strong communication skills and experience influencing technical strategy across teams
- Track record of shipping high-quality, user-facing features in production environments
Compensation range:
$230K - $310K, plus competitive equity.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to experience and expertise in the requirements listed above.
If you're interested in this role but you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway! We're always excited about meeting great people.
Engineering at Gamma
Our tech stack:
We're building on a full Typescript stack centered around some of the most modern and popular technologies.
AI
- We use our own custom, open-source AI prompting framework, AIJSX. We have a lot of custom tools built in-house, but also new ones like Vercel AI SDK.
- Full end-to-end observability using Datadog, Braintrust, and our own data warehouse
Our tiny team operates at massive scale:
1M+
AI generated presentations daily
70M
users around the world
6M+
AI images generated daily
1 trillion
LLM tokens processed per month
Life at Gamma
🤝 You’ll fit right in if…
- You get energy from small teams doing big things.
- You love when design, code, and storytelling overlap.
- You default to action, even when the answer isn’t clear yet.
- You value details, but know when to ship and move on.
- You bring both the spreadsheets and the sparkle, equal parts workhorse and unicorn.
- You believe AI should amplify creativity, not replace it.
- You know kindness and intensity are not opposites.
- You like working with people who care deeply: about their craft, their teammates, and the users on the other side of the screen.
💙 Who we are
Gamma is full of imaginative, passionate people who take their work seriously but not themselves. The culture is warm, a little quirky, and fueled by curiosity. It’s the kind of place where you’ll debate a pixel on Monday, laugh over someone’s keyboard setup on Tuesday, and ship something remarkable by Friday.
We care about craft, move with intention, and don’t mind getting a little scrappy. It’s fast, creative, and occasionally chaotic — but that’s what makes it interesting.
💬 Here’s a bit about what it’s like to work here, from people on the inside:
We asked the team what makes Gamma, Gamma. Here were some of their answers:
- "quirky, inspiring, fun, a little wild in the best way"
- "You can have an idea and just run with it."
- "Everyone’s talented and humble — the mix keeps you sharp."
- "We ship cool stuff, learn a ton, and laugh a lot doing it."
Meet the team
We're a team of dreamers and doers building in beautiful San Francisco 🌉
We're kabbadi enthusiasts, pickleballers, dog herders, woodworkers, keyboard nerds, potters, and more — and we can't wait to meet you!
