Senior Backend Engineer, Peerspace
$155-185k
+ Equity
Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
Job no longer available
Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$155-185k
+ 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
- 5+ year of experience in software development
- Experience with microservice architecture, distributed systems, and API design
- A strong history of problem solving for short, mid and long terms objectives
- Familiarity with at least one of the following: pub/sub and message queue patterns, finite state machines, idempotent request handling, or data modeling
- Many examples of projects that you were responsible for end to end
Desirable
- Experience in a start-up environment
- Clojure experience or interest
What the job involves
- We are looking for a senior software engineer to join the backend team and become an expert in one or more of the business-critical technical areas for our scaling marketplace
- Some areas of active development include our reservation system, transactional ledgers, payment gateways, account and inventory management, account security, as well as search matching
- This role will report to the Backend Engineering Manager and is a great opportunity for an engineer looking for autonomy in a high impact and high visibility role
- Become the technical expert in business-critical microservices and maintain them in production
- Partner with product and design, business stakeholders, and other engineers to identify and deliver functionality that meets technical, product, and business requirements
- Ship frequently - we develop in 2 week sprints that include retros focused on evolving and tuning our process
- Work with modern server-side technologies like Clojure, Node.js, Mongodb, Postgres, Google Pub/Sub, and Kubernetes
- Drive initiatives to improve the reliability and scalability of the platform
- Participate in our culture of improvement by joining code review meetings, writing technical documentation, and reviewing PRs for your teammates
- Serve as a mentor to more junior engineers
- Champion the experience and security of our users and keep their privacy top of mind at all times
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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
Articles
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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