Staff Backend Engineer, Gather

Video

$164-220.4k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Gather

Video chat and Virtual HQs for distributed teams

Open for applications

Gather

Video chat and Virtual HQs for distributed teams

21-100 employees

B2CB2BInternal toolsCommunicationSocialSaaSVideo

Open for applications

$164-220.4k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

21-100 employees

B2CB2BInternal toolsCommunicationSocialSaaSVideo

Company mission

To eliminate the physical barriers to opportunity and connection.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience working on a large-scale group video calling platform (e.g. Zoom or Google Meet)
  • Experience working with WebRTC, either directly or with libraries that use it
  • Intrinsic motivation and drive to solve difficult problems without guidance
  • A keen intuition for well-designed software
  • Ability to thoughtfully stack your priorities in an ever-changing startup environment
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

What the job involves

  • Deliver the tastiest, most appealing video frames our users’ internet connections can endure
  • Optimize our video servers until they laugh with glee at the notion of having hundreds of simultaneous meeting participants
  • Re-architecting our video system, to implement SFU-cascading and replace our current model of multiple simultaneous SFU connections with single connections with backhaul of video between SFU instances
  • Degrade quality with grace for bandwidth or CPU-constrained devices, and handle spurious spikes in latency/congestion with a shout of “Not today, internet weather!”
  • Build tools that guide us to our goal of an exceptionally reliable meeting platform
  • Instrument our service until it looks like a time-traveling Delorean you saw in those movies
  • Build automated tests that ensure the reliability and performance of our video infrastructure as we make it more awesome

Our take

Recent years have seen existing virtual communication platforms stress-tested in both professional and social settings and generated a real appetite for innovative new offerings. Gather is one of the exciting startups in the sector, offering a virtual HQ for group meet-ups like events and office meetings.

Gather’s longevity has depended on its ability to offer something substantially more than just a substitute for in-person communication, and the virtual HQ platform means that it can offer both communication and events in a rich and engaging format. To this end, the company has been wise to invest in novel features like spatial audio tech, games, and a highly customizable ‘space’ which allows businesses and events to provide guests with a substantial and branded experience.

The startup has already quietly amassed more than 10 million users across 15 countries. Hybrid working is here to stay, and Gather is well-placed to capitalize on this by keeping the social element of office working alive for those days when staff are working from home.

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Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

1% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Nov 2021

$50m

SERIES B

Mar 2021

$26m

SERIES A

Total funding: $76m

Company benefits

  • Work remotely out of a state-of-the-art virtual office!
  • Competitive benefits, and meaningful equity
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents
  • 401k and matching program
  • Generous PTO policy and mental health days to recharge
  • Meal stipend twice a week to keep you nourished
  • Remote work, education, and health & wellness stipend
  • Support for family planning & gender-affirmation

Company values

  • Aligned Incentives - History has shown that unaligned business models lead to profit at the cost of the user’s well-being
  • Being Mission Obsessed - The sole purpose of Gather is to build the best Metaverse for humanity
  • Value Creation - Society gets the most value out of a Metaverse that is a free, open platform, much like the Internet. Gather aims to capture only a small fraction of the value we create
  • Building For Everyone - The Metaverse should not discriminate based off of your background or identity

Company HQ

Remote HQ

Leadership

Phillip Wang

(Co-Founder & CEO)

They are a Computer Science graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, previously a Software Engineer Intern at Facebook.

Mohammed Kumail Jaffer

(Co-Founder & CTO)

They are a Computer Science graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, previously a Software Engineer at Petuum Inc.

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