Staff Front-End Product Engineer, Gather
$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
- Excellence in front-end Typescript/React architecture and development
- Experience working with NodeJS
- A keen intuition for well-designed software and well-written code
- You enjoy spending time with customers and are adept and getting to the root problems that your product is uniquely positioned to solve
- You are scrappy, have a bias toward action, and love moving fast
- The capability to balance Doing Things Right and iterating quickly, and the realization that they’re not strictly mutually exclusive
- Intrinsic motivation and the drive to solve difficult problems without guidance
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
What the job involves
- As a Staff Front-End Product Engineer, you will drive the success of exciting initiatives that transform how our customers can use Gather
- You will be a technical leader, redefining what it means to ship bug-free beautiful code
- As a champion for our customers, you will collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and others within the company to quickly design, deliver, and iterate on features
- Lead initiatives that level up our meeting experiences and create opportunities for moments of serendipity for Gather users
- Collaborate cross-functionally with designers, product managers, and other engineers to design, implement, and iterate on features and product directions
- Provide technical leadership to a talented engineering team, guiding them on architectural decisions and coding best practices
- Iterate quickly on experiments while preventing technical lock-in
- Enable more powerful tools and innovative remote work features to be used within Gather
- Write maintainable, clear, well-architected code, tests, and documentation
- Uphold a high-quality bar through code and design reviews
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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