Software Engineer Frontend

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 builds an AI-powered creative and collaborative web application for creating presentations, documents, and websites.

What you will do

• Build and evolve the core real-time collaborative editing experience using CRDTs and WebSockets.
• Ship full-stack features that integrate AI capabilities into polished user interfaces.
• Optimize frontend performance so the editor remains fast and responsive at scale.
• Collaborate with designers to implement high-quality UI interactions and visual details.
• Design APIs with backend engineers to support collaboration and content creation.
• Contribute to and improve open-source projects used by the web application.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building production web applications.
• Strong JavaScript, React, TypeScript, and modern web development fundamentals.
• Experience with real-time collaborative systems, WebSockets, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with CRDTs or operational transformation for collaborative editing.
• Strong attention to detail when implementing user interfaces and web experiences.
• Curious, low-ego approach to collaboration and problem-solving.

Nice to have

• Prior experience building rich text editors or content editors.

Culture & Benefits

• Strong in-office culture with collaboration in San Francisco 4–5 days per week.
• Flexibility to work from home when focused work is needed.
• Benefits and equity included with the full-time position.
• Work with a small, creative team focused on AI, design, code, and storytelling.
• Opportunities to contribute to open-source projects and modern TypeScript tooling.