Senior Engineering Lead, Full Stack

About us

Gather AI is a supply chain robotics company founded by the PhDs from Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute who created the world’s first provably-safe autonomous helicopter.  We have developed an Inventory as a Service platform where fully autonomous drones collect warehouse inventory data at a press of a button.

This is an essential problem to solve as the warehouses we serve have typically misplaced over 10% of their inventory worth $10+ million dollars (seriously!). Their current manual techniques for taking inventory are falling down due the e-commerce boom brought on by COVID, and made worse due to the labor shortage and 70% annual staff turnover. Our drones take inventory 15x faster than humans with over 95% accuracy. We deliver this data through our web dashboard, which acts as a DVR for their warehouse where they run their inventory operation.  We are the leader in this new market with proven technology. Our drones are live in a dozen warehouses and have scanned over 150k pallet locations.

We are a pure-software robotics company and our key innovation is the world’s only autonomy and machine learning engine that can solve this problem with commodity hardware in GPS-denied environments. That means we avoid all of the hardware development pitfalls of traditional robotics companies and we can scale 10x faster. The robotics industry is starting to enter its “Google era,” and we are leading the charge.

About You

We’re looking for a Lead Full Stack Application Engineer, where your expertise in front-end web app development takes flight in the exciting challenge of empowering flying robots (drones) to perform real, impactful work. You’ll contribute to the heartbeat of our AI-focused company by crafting and maintaining web applications that enable customers to seamlessly process visually gathered information, transforming it into actionable tasks and breathing life into our cutting-edge ML and autonomy technology. You’ll also dive into the core interfaces utilized by both customers and internal teams to review and refine data collected by our drones, synthesizing it into actionable insights while constructing tools that assess product performance and measure its value for customers, seizing opportunities for growth and learning. You'll have the opportunity to flex your CS fundamentals, seamlessly blending front-end expertise with occasional forays into back-end or full-stack tasks to bring your visionary ideas to life. Join us at Gather and be part of the revolution shaping the future of AI-driven solutions!

What You’ll Do

• Define and implement new features, fixes, and improvements to our web application suite. This includes interfaces that map warehouse physical environments, build flight schedules, control flight progress, and help our customers view immediate data insights and trends based on flight results.
• Help us define and refine our overall web systems information architecture - this includes things like sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, and information taxonomy.
• Help us build project timelines and stick to them.
• Together, with back-end developers, you define data models and APIs that support your scalable, flexible front end applications.
• Collaborate with a team of world-class autonomy, machine learning, and full-stack experts on new feature development. Develop and evolve our automated inventory monitoring and data gathering solutions.
• Continuously improve the performance, robustness, and scalability of our web applications as we grow, and the footprint and generality of our product as it expands. 
• Own and eliminate the technical debt that comes with startup growth and learning.
• Build and maintain build scripts, tooling, and unit testing fundamental to building a mature, easy-to-evolve, and release CI/CD application platform.
• Act as a trusted advisor and mentor to other team members (we are growing!)

What You’ll Need

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent technical experience.
• 4+ years of interest and experience developing front end applications.
• Comfort with the MERN ecosystem, including React.js, Node.js / Python, Progressive Web Application frameworks (e.g. React), IndexedDB, Tailwind CSS, and Ant.d. 
• Experience with transforming user pain points into intuitive and delightful interfaces with or without the help of UI/UX designers.
• Interest in designing before developing UI/UX interfaces using Miro/Figma and presenting them to customers and users to seek validation.
• Experience working with CI/CD testing tools and releasing production software through the cloud ecosystems.
• Extensive experience defining data models and APIs with back-end developers that can support scalable, flexible frontend applications.
• Knowledge of and comfort with JS threading, callback, and unit testing best practices.
• Good writing skills and a design-for-test ethos. 
• Customer obsession! We are a customer-obsessed company. If you are not already customer-obsessed, expect to become so!

Nice to Have

• Some prior startup growth experience. We are a small but fast-growing company, and we are looking for candidates who are ready to grow their skills with us.
• Interest and proficiency in developing rich, possibly event-driven APIs involving multiple concurrent users (and drones!)
• GraphQL and gRPC experience - we have rich views on data and are considering these technologies.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary: 30-50 LPA
• Flexible schedule
• Unlimited paid leave
• Remote work & home office stipend
• Wellness benefits