Staff Backend Engineer, Gather
Platform
$187.8-237.6k
Plus stock reward program
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
$187.8-237.6k
Plus stock reward program
21-100 employees
Company mission
To eliminate the physical barriers to opportunity and connection.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience working with Typescript or an aptitude to learn Typescript quickly
- 5+ years of experience working in technical domain(s) relevant to the technologies that power Gather, such as real-time gaming backends, graphics and rendering, Typescript and React performance, or extensible platform architecture
- A keen intuition for well-designed software and well-written code
- Intrinsic motivation and the drive to own and solve difficult problems without guidance
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with technical leadership abilities
- An open and growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback
- You are resourceful, have a bias towards action, and love moving fast
- A healthy tolerance for the chaotic balance between Doing Things Right and iterating and shipping quickly
What the job involves
- Our Platform team plays a crucial role in building the foundations that power Gather
- Our product is rich and complex, with audio/video products like Zoom or Google Meet, work chats like Slack or Microsoft Teams, and a real-time virtual world similar to an MMORPG
- As a Staff Platform Engineer, you help ensure our foundations and systems' performance, stability, and reliability
- You design and create the building blocks our product developers rely on to ship quickly and reliably
- You deeply understand a few domains, whether real-time distributed systems, computer graphics, rendering, or designing robust APIs and interfaces
- Staff engineers at Gather are engineering leaders
- You’ll lead projects and sometimes teams to successfully deliver
- You set a high bar for quality and pace
- You will tackle some of our hardest engineering problems and help mentor the rest of the team on how to hit a higher bar of excellence
- Design a game service to support thousands of concurrent users per virtual office
- Identify and fix performance bottlenecks on any of our services or storage layers
- Build client-side SDKs that define the way our application interfaces with our backend
- Dive deep into debugging and fixing performance issues with customers
- Define strategies for tuning, redefining, or creating from scratch pieces of our platform
- Mentor engineers across our engineering team
- Work closely with company leadership to shape large parts of the company’s strategy and direction
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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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