Staff Backend Engineer - Platform

October 28, 2023

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Description

• Backend Engineers at Gather design and implement the complex systems that underlie what is simultaneously a live video chat platform, multiplayer game, and modern web app • 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

Requirements

• 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

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