Staff Software Engineer, Growth
Gamma
Software Engineering, Sales & Business Development
San Francisco, CA, USA
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Engineering
About the role
You'll own end-to-end growth strategy and execution as we scale Gamma to hundreds of millions of users. This means driving key business metrics like sign-ups, activation rates, conversion, retention, and revenue while designing the infrastructure that enables rapid experimentation at scale. You'll architect complex monetization features including multi-tier pricing, usage-based billing, payment flows, and subscription management while partnering with leadership to shape company-wide growth strategy.
As a Staff Engineer on the Growth team, you'll balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You'll mentor engineers on growth best practices and experimentation rigor, make critical technical decisions about when to experiment vs commit, and identify high-leverage opportunities hiding in data. You'll bring both statistical rigor and strong judgment, knowing when metrics lie, when to trust intuition, and when to dig deeper.
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
Design and architect growth infrastructure including experimentation framework, analytics pipelines, feature flagging, and credit systems
Build complex monetization features including multi-tier pricing, usage-based billing, payment flows, and subscription management
Lead technical decision-making for growth initiatives, determining when to experiment vs commit and when to rebuild vs iterate
Mentor engineers on growth best practices, experimentation rigor, and product thinking
Identify high-leverage opportunities by finding 10x wins hiding in data, unblocking bottlenecks, and architecting for scale
Partner with EPD and GTM leadership to shape company-wide growth strategy
What you'll bring
7+ years building production web applications with deep full-stack expertise
Proven track record moving critical business metrics at scale (revenue, activation, retention)
Strong technical leadership with ability to architect complex systems, make build vs buy decisions, and guide technical direction
Expert at experimentation with statistical rigor, understanding of pitfalls, and ability to build frameworks that enable team velocity
Proficiency in TypeScript, React, Node.js (or strong fundamentals in similar technologies)
Deep product and business sense with ability to see around corners, translate strategy into execution, and drive measurable change in metric
Experience with payment systems, billing logic, and fraud prevention at scale
High autonomy, low ego with empathetic, reflective, self-aware, growth mindset that actively promotes psychological safety
Built 0→1 monetization, scaled growth from early stage to Series B+, or led experimentation platforms (Nice to have)
Compensation range:
The base salary for this full-time position, which spans multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $230K - $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.
