Staff Backend Engineer, Gather
Platform
$164-220.4k
Plus stock reward program
Video chat and Virtual HQs for distributed teams
Open for applications
Video chat and Virtual HQs for distributed teams
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$164-220.4k
Plus stock reward program
21-100 employees
Company mission
Gather's mission is to eliminate the physical barriers to opportunity and connection.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated excellence in distributed systems fundamentals
- 5+ years of experience shipping systems and infrastructure components at a great scale
- Experience working with Typescript and NodeJS
- A keen intuition for well-designed software and well-written code
- Intrinsic motivation and the drive to own and solve difficult problems without guidance
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with technical leadership abilities
- A healthy tolerance for the chaotic balance between Doing Things Right and iterating and shipping quickly
What the job involves
- Design and implement the complex systems that underlie what is simultaneously a live video chat platform, multiplayer game, and modern web app
- Take ownership the Gather Platform and design a mature, scalable and reliable set of services that tie together our game engine, audio/video systems, and app-driven virtual spaces!
- Performance tune the game service to support thousands of users per space
- Build (and secure) a web socket API that enables anyone to enhance Gather with their own arbitrary game logic
- Expand the expressiveness of objects and build the first few examples (think levers which cause [anything], projectiles, sounds, etc)
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of the video system through better architecture, testing, and monitoring
- Rearchitect the game service to be stateless and massively parallelized
- Build a plugin system that allows anyone to use community-created add-ons
Our take
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.
Steph
Company Specialist
Insights
Few 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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Leadership
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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