Senior Back End Engineer, Peerspace
$170-190k
+ Equity
Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
Open for applications
Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$170-190k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring people together, starting with making it easy to find and book the perfect places to meet, create, and celebrate.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 5-8 years in software development, with hands-on experience in backend engineering
- Proficiency in Clojure for developing and maintaining backend services
- Familiarity with Node.js, especially for supporting legacy services
- Understanding of service-oriented architectures and RESTful API design
- Experience working in cloud environments and using modern development tooling
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools and practices
- Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills with the ability to debug and optimize backend systems
- Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with senior engineers and cross-functional teams, contributing to collective problem-solving and continuous improvement
- Growth Mindset: Enthusiasm for learning new tools and techniques in cloud deployment, automation, and backend development
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer at Peerspace, you will be a vital member of our delivery team focused on building and maintaining scalable backend services that power the Peerspace platform
- You will primarily work in Clojure to develop new services and support existing systems, with occasional maintenance of legacy applications and services in Node
- Working closely with other engineers, product management, and cross-functional stakeholders, you'll help ensure our cloud-based, service-oriented architecture is robust, reliable, and aligned with modern development practices, including infrastructure-as-code
- Service Development: Designing, implementing, and maintaining backend services primarily using Clojure, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and performant
- Legacy Support: Assisting in the maintenance and gradual modernization of legacy Node.js services as part of our broader system
- Cloud Deployment: Collaborating on cloud deployments, leveraging modern tooling and infrastructure-as-code practices to enhance our deployment pipelines and overall system reliability
- Code Quality: Writing clean, well-documented code and participating in code reviews to uphold our quality standards
- Collaboration: Working closely with senior engineers, DevOps, and other team members to integrate backend services into our overall architecture and resolve operational issues
- Continuous Improvement: Engaging in learning opportunities, adopting best practices, and staying up-to-date with industry trends to enhance the backend technology stack
Our take
The growth rate of event and party space rentals is growing exponentially along with the everlasting need for exciting locations for film & TV productions. Peerspace is a marketplace for users to explore venues for both meeting and production needs. Likened to the Airbnb for hourly renting venues, the company has had around 3 million people bring their visions to life via Peerspace locations around the globe since founding in 2014.
Growing rapidly from the get go, Peerspace made its mission to find interesting spaces to market via it's site to encourage traffic from a certain demographic of creatives. The company’s 2023 rebrand has aligned the aesthetic of the company with its users. Fashion shoots, music videos and film shoots among other events like birthday parties are some of the exciting happenings inside the venues that Peerspace host on its site.
The company now stands as a leader in its market offering subscriptions like PeerspacePro which connects its agency partners to provide production crews with exclusive rentals and scouting support. The company’s customer base of Disney , Netflix and Vogue are just a few of the household names to use the service. We’re excited to see how the company continues to sift out the most exciting locations around the world and scale its endeavours.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2018
$16m
SERIES B
May 2017
$11m
SERIES A
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- 100% employee coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance
- $500 annual professional development allowance
- Discount on all Peerspace bookings
- Laptop, high res display, and stipend to setup home office
- Monthly cell phone and internet credit
- Coworking membership if needed (in lieu of home office)
- Access to the Peerspace network of inspiring spaces to do your best work
- Flexible take it as you need it time off policy
- Wellness Fridays observed company wide
- Annual in-person, all company offsites and team-building events (in Peerspace locations, of course)
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kevin Yuann
(CEO)Joined Peerspace in 2024 as CEO. Previously they held the position of Chief Business officer at NerdWallet and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Visa.
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