Software Engineer, Platform

We're building the creative layer for modern communication. Every month, over a billion people make presentations — but the tools they use to make them haven't evolved in decades. We're changing that, using AI to disrupt a massive market.

📈 Millions of people rely on Gamma to create, teach, and persuade, creating more than 1 million gammas every day.

💻 We see Gamma as the next great workplace tool, combining viral B2C love with a massive B2B opportunity. We believe AI can be a true creative partner: one that understands context, clarity, and taste.

💸 We’ve reached a $2.1B valuation
, crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue
, and have been profitable since 2023.

💙 We're an imaginative, passionate team who takes our work seriously, but not ourselves. Our culture is warm, a little quirky, fueled by curiosity.

You'll build and scale the application and data infrastructure that supports 70M+ users creating millions of gammas every day. This means working on real-time collaborative editing, databases, public APIs, and high-volume event pipelines while helping define and evolve the core data model and storage systems powering Gamma's business. You'll ship backend systems that directly impact growth metrics and user experience, balancing long-term technical investments with rapid shipping velocity.

As Software Engineer on the Platform team, you'll collaborate across frontend, product, and data teams in a fast-paced, product-led environment. You'll bring a product-minded approach, understanding how technical decisions impact user experience and business metrics while thriving in an environment where shipping quality directly impacts growth.

Our team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4–5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay creative and connected, with flexibility to work from home when focus matters most.

• Design and implement scalable APIs, distributed systems, and data infrastructure that serve millions of users
• Help define and evolve the core data model and storage systems powering Gamma's business
• Ship backend systems that directly impact growth metrics and user experience
• Work on real-time collaborative editing, databases, public APIs, and high-volume event pipelines
• Balance long‑term technical investments with rapid shipping velocity
• Collaborate across frontend, product, and data teams to deliver high-quality solutions under tight timelines

• 3–5+ years of backend engineering experience building scalable systems
• Strong proficiency in backend technologies (Node.js, Python, or similar) and databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, Redis)
• Experience with high‑traffic production systems and performance optimization
• Track record shipping high‑quality, complex applications under tight timelines
• Product‑minded approach with understanding of how technical decisions impact user experience and business metrics
• Thrives in fast‑paced, product‑led environments where shipping quality directly impacts growth
• (Nice to have) Experience with real‑time collaboration systems, event pipelines, or AI‑powered applications

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to experience and expertise in the requirements listed above.

If you're interested in this role but you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway! We're always excited about meeting great people.

We're building on a full Typescript stack centered around some of the most modern and popular technologies.

We use our own custom, open‑source AI prompting framework, AIJSX . We have a lot of custom tools built in‑house, but also new ones like Vercel AI SDK .

• 1M+
• 70M
• users around the world
• 6M+
• AI images generated daily
• 1 trillion
• LLM tokens processed per month

You get energy from small teams doing big things.

You love when design, code, and storytelling overlap.

You default to action, even when the answer isn’t clear yet.

You value details, but know when to ship and move on.

You bring both the spreadsheets and the sparkle, equal parts workhorse and unicorn.

You believe AI should amplify creativity, not…