Software Engineer, Platform

Gamma
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 180,000 - 275,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Communication","Curiosity"]

Backend-focused role building and scaling distributed systems powering a high-scale AI-powered product. You’ll work across the full stack with frontend, product, and design teams using a TypeScript stack (React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis). In-office in San Francisco 4–5 days/week with optional remote days, focusing on performance, reliability, APIs, and complex data challenges.

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Gamma
Gamma
1 year ago

Software Engineer, Platform

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Job Summary

Backend-focused role building and scaling distributed systems powering a high-scale AI-powered product. You’ll work across the full stack with frontend, product, and design teams using a TypeScript stack (React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis). In-office in San Francisco 4–5 days/week with optional remote days, focusing on performance, reliability, APIs, and complex data challenges.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Scale backend systems to hundreds of millions of users with high performance and availability.
  • •Build and optimize APIs that power real-time collaborative editing and AI content generation.
  • •Design and implement distributed systems that handle massive scale with reliability.
  • •Ship features across the full stack, collaborating with frontend engineers to deliver polished experiences.
  • •Architect solutions for data consistency, caching, and query optimization.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 275,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years building production backend systems with strong fundamentals in distributed systems, databases, and API design
  • •Deep proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js or similar backend languages, with eagerness to work in our TypeScript stack
  • •Experience scaling systems to handle millions of users and high throughput workloads
  • •Strong understanding of PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar database technologies
  • •Prior experience working with websockets, streaming, or scaling inference workloads (Nice to have)
Experience:3+ yearsAISaaSDistributed systems
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationCuriosity
Tech Stack:TypeScriptNode.jsReactPostgreSQLRedisWebSockets

Company Brief

Gamma
Gamma (gamma.app) is an AI-powered visual storytelling platform that generates presentations, websites, documents, and social content from text or briefs — combining AI design agents, smart layouts, and collaboration tools for fast, polished outputs.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2020
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