Software Engineer, Backend (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA; in-person work 4–5 days per week with some flexibility to work from home

Base salary: $180,000–$310,000 per year, plus benefits and equity.

Company

Gamma is building an AI-powered creative and presentation platform used by millions of people to create, teach, and share ideas.

What you will do

• Scale backend systems for hundreds of millions of users while maintaining high performance and availability.
• Build and optimize APIs for real-time collaborative editing and AI content generation.
• Design and implement reliable distributed systems for high-throughput workloads.
• Ship full-stack features in collaboration with frontend, product, and design teams.
• Architect solutions for data consistency, caching, query optimization, and other complex technical challenges.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building production backend systems.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, databases, and API design.
• Deep proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, or similar backend languages, with willingness to work in a TypeScript stack.
• Experience scaling systems for millions of users and high-throughput workloads.
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL, Redis, or comparable database technologies.
• Experience with WebSockets, streaming, or scaling inference workloads.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI prompting frameworks, AI SDKs, observability tools, or data warehouses.

Culture & Benefits

• Strong in-office culture with flexibility to work from home when focused work is needed.
• Benefits and equity are included with the full-time position.
• Work with a small, creative team focused on design, code, storytelling, and AI-assisted creativity.
• Environment emphasizing curiosity, kindness, technical craft, and rapid execution.