Senior frontend engineer

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.

Applying for this role is straight forward Scroll down and click on Apply to be considered for this position.

A bit more about us :

Over 10 million users , all driven by word-of-mouth

16 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

Requirements

Must Have

5+ 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)

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 :

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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

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Last updated : 2024-0+-05