UI Engineer (Frontend)

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

Salary: $180,000–$310,000 base salary per year, plus benefits and equity

Company

Gamma is building an AI-powered creative and presentation platform for modern communication, combining a consumer product with a large business opportunity.

What you will do

• Own accessible design-system components ranging from foundational elements to complex editor UI primitives.
• Build pixel-perfect layouts, responsive interactions, smooth animations, and polished micro-interactions.
• Partner with designers to translate high-fidelity mocks into production-ready components.
• Create reusable, well-documented component libraries that scale across the product.
• Optimize React rendering, bundle size, CSS performance, and interaction responsiveness for 60fps animations.
• Solve cross-browser compatibility issues, rendering quirks, and UI edge cases.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of frontend engineering experience with deep React expertise.
• Mastery of CSS, including flexbox, grid, animations, transforms, and browser quirks.
• Experience building complex interactive UIs such as editors, design tools, or animation-heavy applications.
• Experience with frontend performance optimization, reusable component libraries, accessibility, and responsive behavior.
• A sharp eye for visual detail, including spacing, typography, hover states, loading states, error states, and animation quality.
• Comfort working in a full TypeScript stack and collaborating closely with designers.

Nice to have

• Experience with animation libraries or visual editing tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Base salary is supplemented with benefits and equity.
• Work in a small, high-impact team focused on design, code, storytelling, and AI-assisted creativity.
• Collaborative, warm, curious, and detail-oriented working environment.
• Strong in-office culture in San Francisco with limited work-from-home flexibility.
• Fast-moving environment that values craft, initiative, kindness, and shipping.