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gamma.app

Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

gamma.app, WorkFromHome

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We've been working at the forefront of generative AI to automate the hard parts of designing and sharing beautiful presentations, websites, social media posts, and more.

We're based in San Francisco - most of us are in office ~3 days a week

We're AI pioneers - we're early players in the space and we're constantly redefining what it means to build with and for AI

About the role

We're looking for an experienced frontend focused engineer to join our team.

Over the past year, we've grown from a private beta serving hundreds of active users to a hot AI tool growing faster everyday with millions of users hitting our servers from around the world at all hours of the day. Gamma.app never sleeps!

This 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 3 days per week with a schedule that works best for you.

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

What you'll do:

Build and maintain the core foundations of our collaborative editor

Architect complex AI-powered features and workflows

Lead frontend performance optimization initiatives

Design and implement sophisticated drag and drop interfaces

Debug and fix complex issues across our codebase

Contribute to open source projects that we depend on

Create integrations with other platforms and embedded applications

Our ideal candidate has:

8+ years experience as a frontend software engineer

A strong understanding of:

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)

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, NextJS, or Express

The base annual salary range for this role is $225k-$300k .

Competitive compensation package including equity

Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance for you and your benefits

Unlimited PTO and flexible hours — we encourage everyone to take time off as needed!

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 about this role but you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway! We're always excited about meeting great people and we care about more than the bullet points on your resume.

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:

Language Models: Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5, GPT-4o,

Image Models: Flux, Imagen, Ideogram and many more.

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!

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