Staff Backend Engineer, Gather

• 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

• 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

• 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

Total funding: $76m

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.