Frontend Engineer, Peerspace
$130-150k
+ Equity
Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
Job no longer available
Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$130-150k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To open the doors to rentable spaces in cities around the world, from photo studios and meeting rooms, to backyards and bars.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 3-5 years in front-end development, with significant experience building modern web applications
- Strong proficiency in React (or similar modern front-end frameworks)
- Experience with Next.js, server-side rendering (SSR), and static site generation (SSG)
- Deep understanding of CSS, responsive design, and component-driven architecture
- Strong knowledge of state management solutions (e.g., Redux, React Context)
- Experience integrating with APIs and backend services in a services-based architecture
- Experience building accessible (a11y-compliant), high-performance web applications
- Familiarity with front-end testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Backend teams
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and contributing to technical decision-making
- Strong communication skills and ability to advocate for front-end best practices
What the job involves
- As a Front-End Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the user experience of our platform, ensuring our front-end applications are modern, performant, and scalable
- You will work closely with designers, product managers, and backend engineers to develop high-quality, reusable components and features while helping improve our front-end architecture
- As a senior team member, you will contribute to technical decisions, mentor junior engineers, and advocate for best practices in front-end development
- Develop & Maintain Features: Build scalable, maintainable front-end applications using modern frameworks and tools
- Improve Front-end Architecture: Contribute to technical decisions on architecture, performance optimization, and front-end best practices
- Enhance Developer Experience: Help refine our design system, component libraries, and development workflows
- Mentor & Lead: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers, reviewing code and sharing knowledge
- Ensure Quality & Performance: Write clean, well-tested code, optimizing for performance, accessibility, and SEO
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with designers, product managers, and backend engineers to deliver high-quality user experiences
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 over 45,000 spaces bring their visions to life around the globe.
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, including Disney, Netflix and Vogue as just a few of the household names to use the service. Now the company's tackling Houston as its next destination, so it will be exciting to see how this takes off and what's next for Peerspace.
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 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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