Senior Software Engineer, Gather
Performance Systems
$160.7-203.2k
+ meaningful equity
Video chat and Virtual HQs for distributed teams
Open for applications
Video chat and Virtual HQs for distributed teams
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$160.7-203.2k
+ meaningful equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To eliminate the physical barriers to opportunity and connection.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience with performance profiling and analysis, debugging, and optimization across a range of systems (frontend, backend, desktop, or GPU-bound)
- 2+ years of experience designing and executing reproducible performance experiments, with a strong understanding of key performance metrics
- 4+ years of experience with TypeScript, with experience in C++ or Rust being a plus
- Excellent data analysis skills with the ability to interpret performance metrics and present them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to solve complex performance issues and decompose large problems into smaller, testable hypotheses
- Intrinsic motivation and the drive to own and solve complex problems without guidance
- A strong desire to build the best experience for customers
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with technical leadership abilities
- An open and growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback
- Resourcefulness, a bias toward action, and a love moving fast
- A healthy tolerance for the chaotic balance between Doing Things Right and iterating and shipping quickly
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll plan and build the systems that help us tackle performance issues at Gather
- You’ll investigate and solve performance issues across our entire stack, including our desktop application, GPU-bound features, browser javascript engines, memory management, and more
- You’ll be tasked with building a systematic approach to identifying performance bottlenecks, including standing up benchmarking suites to understand whether our application is meeting our high-quality bar
- Build a framework to run reproducible performance tests on diverse hardware configurations
- Design and implement performance benchmarks that cover the full stack, including GPU, front-end, and server-side workloads
- Investigate performance issues and deep-dive into technical debugging across web applications, desktop applications, and our audio-video stack
- Collaborate with engineers across teams to design, develop, test, and optimize software for better performance
- Leverage browser and operating system debugging tools to gather performance traces and identify areas for improvement
- Conduct performance experiments designed to validate improvements in key metrics (e.g., P95/P99 latency, query performance, CPU/memory utilization)
- Foster a culture of early-stage performance testing and awareness throughout the development life cycle
- Drive long-term front-end infrastructure vision and strategy, influencing product teams to deliver a best-in-class product when it comes to performance
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.
Steph
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Insights
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
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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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