Staff Backend Engineer, Gather
Video
$164-220.4k
+ Equity
Video chat and Virtual HQs for distributed teams
Job no longer available
Video chat and Virtual HQs for distributed teams
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$164-220.4k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Gather's mission is to eliminate the physical barriers to opportunity and connection.
Role
Who you are
- Experience working on a large-scale group video calling platform (e.g. Zoom or Google Meet)
- Experience working with WebRTC, either directly or with libraries that use it
- Intrinsic motivation and drive to solve difficult problems without guidance
- A keen intuition for well-designed software
- Ability to thoughtfully stack your priorities in an ever-changing startup environment
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
What the job involves
- Deliver the tastiest, most appealing video frames our users’ internet connections can endure
- Optimize our video servers until they laugh with glee at the notion of having hundreds of simultaneous meeting participants
- Re-architecting our video system, to implement SFU-cascading and replace our current model of multiple simultaneous SFU connections with single connections with backhaul of video between SFU instances
- Degrade quality with grace for bandwidth or CPU-constrained devices, and handle spurious spikes in latency/congestion with a shout of “Not today, internet weather!”
- Build tools that guide us to our goal of an exceptionally reliable meeting platform
- Instrument our service until it looks like a time-traveling Delorean you saw in those movies
- Build automated tests that ensure the reliability and performance of our video infrastructure as we make it more awesome
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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 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.
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 from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, & vision insurance
- Remote work and health & wellness stipend
- Professional & educational stipend to always be learning
- Support for family planning & gender-affirmation
- Meal stipends twice a week to keep you fueled
- Generous time-off
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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Founders
Phillip Wang
(CEO)Computer Science graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, previously an intern at Facebook.
Computer Science graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, previously a Software Engineer at Petuum Inc.
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