Principal Mobile Engineer, Peerspace
$180-210k
+ Equity
Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
Open for applications
Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-210k
+ 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: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant focus on mobile development and a proven track record of architecting and scaling large-scale mobile applications
- ○ Expert-level knowledge of barebones React Native and Expo and their ecosystems
- ○ Deep understanding of the native iOS (Swift/Objective-C) and Android (Kotlin/Java) ecosystems, including native build tools, store submission processes, and bridging native modules
- ○ Proven experience in mobile-specific performance optimization (e.g., startup time, bundle size, memory usage, and perceived performance) and maintaining large scale production apps
- ○ Mastery of mobile architecture, including state management, navigation, event-driven architecture and creating reusable, high-quality components
- ○ Solid understanding of functional programming principles including pure functions, single-responsibility, and immutability etc
- Operational Excellence: A strong passion for developer experience, including improving build times, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CircleCI, Fastlane), and automated testing
- Stability & Observability: Deep familiarity with mobile observability, crash reporting, and stability management (e.g., Datadog, Sentry, Bugsnag)
- Leadership: A history of mentoring senior engineers, influencing and driving technical roadmaps, and making high-stakes architectural decisions. You can clearly communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- As a Principal Mobile Engineer, you will be the most senior technical leader and architect for the Peerspace mobile platform
- You are a "force multiplier" who will define the long-term vision and technical strategy for our React Native application across both iOS and Android
- Reporting to the Sr.Engineering Manager, you will operate as the chief architect and subject matter expert for our mobile ecosystem
- Your focus will be on driving excellence across the entire mobile development lifecycle, from technical design to delivery
- You will be the primary owner responsible for our mobile architecture, performance, stability, and developer experience
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role, requiring you to mentor senior engineers, set the technical roadmap, and solve our most complex mobile-specific challenges
- Architecture & Vision: Define and own the long-term technical vision and architecture for the Peerspace React Native platform, ensuring it is scalable, maintainable, and performant
- Performance & Stability: Establish and enforce best practices for mobile performance and stability. You will lead the effort to monitor, triage, and eliminate crashes and performance bottlenecks
- Feature Parity & Maintenance: Develop strategies to ensure consistent, high-quality feature parity across platforms while overseeing ongoing maintenance of the mobile application
- Developer Experience: Partner with our Platform Engineering group to ensure the mobile developer experience is "flow-like and impactful," optimizing build, test, and release cycles
- Technical Leadership: Mentor and level up Senior and Staff engineers on the mobile team. You will lead by example through design reviews, code reviews, and prototyping complex solutions
- Innovation: Drive innovation by developing proof of concepts, leveraging platform-specific capability and evaluating new technologies, libraries, and patterns (e.g., new React Native architecture, native modules) to keep our platform modern and efficient
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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