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title: 'Software Engineer, Frontend at Gamma'
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last_seen: '2026-10-17'
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# Software Engineer, Frontend at Gamma

- **Company:** Gamma
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gamma/fa99107a-c458-45fa-b856-add887b0a255

## Job description

## About the role

You'll build the collaborative web application that millions of people rely on to create presentations, documents, and websites with AI. You'll ship features that make real-time collaboration feel effortless, integrate AI capabilities into intuitive interfaces, and ensure the editor performs flawlessly whether someone is creating their first gamma or their thousandth. This role puts you at the core of Gamma's product: our AI-powered editor, built on CRDTs and WebSockets. You'll shape how users interact with AI-generated content in real time, working closely with backend engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver experiences that feel fast, polished, and magical. 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.

## What you'll do

- Build and evolve the core real-time collaborative editing experience using CRDTs and WebSockets
- Ship full-stack features that integrate AI capabilities into intuitive, polished user experiences
- Optimize frontend performance so the editor feels fast and responsive at scale
- Collaborate with designers to implement high-quality UI interactions and visual details
- Contribute to and suggest improvements for open-source projects that are core to Gamma's web application
- Design APIs with backend engineers to power seamless collaboration and content creation

## What you'll bring

- 3+ years building production web applications with strong fundamentals in JavaScript, React, and modern web development
- Genuine passion for crafting excellent web experiences, with sharp attention to detail in UI implementation
- Experience with real-time collaborative systems, WebSockets, or similar technologies, and familiarity with CRDTs or operational transformation for collaborative editing
- A curious, low-ego mindset that matches your technical skill
- Prior experience building rich text editors or content editors (Nice to have)

Compensation range: The base salary for this full-time position, which spans multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $180K - $310K plus benefits & equity.

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.

## About Gamma

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered productivity software / presentation and content creation
- **Target customers**: B2C (individual creators, professionals) and B2B (teams, enterprises)
- **Mission statement**: “We build tools for imagination” – making it easy for anyone to share ideas beautifully and quickly without design or communication expertise.

## Products & Services
- **Presentations**: Turn any idea or outline into a polished slide deck; export to PPT, PDF, Google Slides, and more.
- **Documents**: Create structured, visual documents (one-pagers, white papers) with AI assistance.
- **Websites**: Generate a shareable, hosted website in minutes – no coding required.
- **Social Media**: Produce platform-ready social content sized and styled for posting.
- **Graphics**: AI design agent for creating custom, on-brand graphics, infographics, and illustrations.
- **API**: Programmatic creation for automation, integration, and scaling content.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $2.1B (as of 2026, per company about page)
- **Key Metric**: $100M+ annual recurring revenue (ARR); 100 million total users; over 1 million creations per day
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed (likely venture-backed given valuation)
- **Growth Signals**: Achieved profitability in 2023; rapid user adoption (100M users); expanding from presentations into websites, social, and API; strong B2C viral growth with growing B2B enterprise traction.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Built from the ground up for AI collaboration, not retrofitted.
- **Multi-format versatility**: One platform for presentations, documents, websites, social posts, and graphics – reducing tool sprawl.
- **Viral B2C love + massive B2B opportunity**: Millions of individual users drive organic adoption into enterprises.
- **Profitable growth**: Profitable since 2023 while still scaling rapidly, demonstrating unit economics.

## Strategic Focus
- **Disrupting the presentation market**: Replacing legacy tools (PowerPoint, Google Slides) with an AI-first experience.
- **Expanding the creative layer**: Moving beyond presentations to become the default tool for all modern communication (documents, websites, social).
- **Enterprise go-to-market**: Building on viral B2C adoption to capture B2B contracts with features like brand controls, team collaboration, and API integrations.
- **Continuous AI innovation**: Leveraging 20+ AI models and constant iteration to improve output quality and creative capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “warm, a little quirky, and fueled by curiosity” – a team of dreamers and doers that ships constantly.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/on-site presence in San Francisco (primary hub) and New York; many roles listed as “San Francisco” or “New York” with on-site expectation; some remote flexibility may exist for certain roles.
- **Notable perks**: Being part of a profitable, high-growth unicorn; working on a product used by 100M people; opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered communication.
- **Engineering culture**: Heavy emphasis on AI, data science, and product design; roles include AI Engineer, Research Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, and UI Engineer.

## Sources
1. [Gamma About Page](https://gamma.app/about)
2. [Gamma Careers Page](https://careers.gamma.app/)
3. [Gamma Job Listings (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gamma)
4. [Gamma Product Pages](https://gamma.app/?lng=en)
5. [Gamma Team Page](https://team.gamma.app/)

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