Software Engineer, Backend

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, and fueled by curiosity.

You’ll build and scale the backend systems that power millions users creating content every day on Gamma. This role is about solving real distributed systems challenges at scale while maintaining the performance and reliability users expect from a modern AI-powered product. You’ll work across the full stack, shipping features that directly impact how people create and share their ideas.

While this role is backend focused, you’ll work across the entire product with our frontend, product, and design teams. Our full Type Script stack is built on modern technologies including React, Node.js, Postgre

SQL, Redis, and cutting-edge AI models.

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.

• Scale backend systems to hundreds of millions of users while maintaining high performance and availability
• Build and optimize APIs that power real-time collaborative editing and AI content generation
• Design and implement distributed systems that handle massive scale with reliability
• Ship features across the full stack, working closely with frontend engineers to deliver polished experiences
• Architect solutions for complex technical challenges in areas like data consistency, caching, and query optimization
• Collaborate with product and design to turn ideas into production-ready features

• 3+ years building production backend systems with strong fundamentals in distributed systems, databases, and API design
• Deep proficiency in Type Script/Node.js or similar backend languages, with eagerness to work in our Type Script stack
• Experience scaling systems to handle millions of users and high throughput workloads
• Strong understanding of Postgre
  
  SQL, Redis, or similar database technologies
• Passion for building APIs, scaling complex systems, and creating excellent web applications
• Curiosity and attitude that matches your technical knowledge (Nice to have)
• Bonus:
  Prior experience working with websockets, streaming, or scaling inference workloads

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 replace it.

You know kindness and intensity are not opposites.

You like working with people who care deeply: about their craft, their teammates, and the…