Senior Software Engineer - Performance Systems

September 19, 2024

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Gather

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Gather is a virtual collaboration platform designed to enhance communication and create a sense of community among distributed teams. The platform allows remote teams to interact as they would in a physical office, supporting serendipitous conversations and spontaneous interactions through features like virtual office spaces, shared whiteboards, and Slack integration. Gather aims to improve team productivity and engagement by reconstructing the informal and casual communication that typically happens in physical office spaces. Customers appreciate how Gather transforms remote work culture by reducing formal meetings and facilitating informal connections, which helps in building a strong, cohesive culture for remote teams.

51 - 200 employees

🤝 B2B

⚡ Productivity

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• A fast, performant application is crucial to the foundations that power Gather. • Our product is rich and complex, encompassing a full audio/video system powered by WebRTC, a real-time virtual world similar to an MMORPG, and a full React-based web application with chat, calendar integrations, and more. • In this role, you’ll plan and build the systems that help us tackle performance issues at Gather. • You’ll investigate and solve performance issues across our entire stack, including our desktop application, GPU-bound features, browser javascript engines, memory management, and more. • You’ll be tasked with building a systematic approach to identifying performance bottlenecks, including standing up benchmarking suites to understand whether our application is meeting our high-quality bar.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience with performance profiling and analysis, debugging, and optimization across a range of systems (frontend, backend, desktop, or GPU-bound) • 2+ years of experience designing and executing reproducible performance experiments, with a strong understanding of key performance metrics • 4+ years of experience with TypeScript, with experience in C++ or Rust being a plus • Excellent data analysis skills with the ability to interpret performance metrics and present them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders • Ability to solve complex performance issues and decompose large problems into smaller, testable hypotheses • Intrinsic motivation and the drive to own and solve complex problems without guidance • A strong desire to build the best experience for customers • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with technical leadership abilities • An open and growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback • Resourcefulness, a bias toward action, and a love moving fast • A healthy tolerance for the chaotic balance between Doing Things Right and iterating and shipping quickly

🏖️ Benefits

• Work remotely out of a state-of-the-art virtual office! • Competitive compensation, benefits, and meaningful equity • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents • 401k and matching program • Generous PTO policy and mental health days to recharge • Meal stipend twice a week to keep you nourished • Remote work, education, and health & wellness stipend • Support for family planning & gender-affirmation • The opportunity to join a passionate team in building something that actually makes peoples' lives better, every single day