Senior Backend Engineer

Peerspace is the leading and category defining online marketplace for venue rentals for meetings, productions, and events. We open doors to the most inspiring spaces around the world, from lofts and mansions to storefronts and studios. Peerspace welcomes guests to over 40,000 spaces where they can bring their creative ideas to life, and empowers hosts to earn additional income. Over $500M has been transacted through the platform and our investors include GV (Google Ventures) and Foundation Capital.

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.

Responsibilities:

● 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

Qualifications:

● 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

Preferred Qualifications:

● Experience in a start-up environment

● Clojure experience or interest

The annual salary range for this role is $155,000 to $185,000. The actual salary amount will vary depending on the applicant’s experience, skills, and abilities as well as internal equity and market data.

Working At Peerspace

Peerspace is proudly certified as a Great Place to Work™ and we're a remote first company with team members located in cities around the globe. Beyond competitive salary and equity compensation, we provide a range of benefits and perks, including:

● 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)

Diversity

At Peerspace, we're dedicated to creating a team that's diverse, equitable and inclusive. Our workplace is a space where all team members are empowered to blaze their own trail, make things happen, and take pride in their work. We believe bringing people together from different backgrounds and identities makes us stronger and better serves the Peerspace community. We'd especially like to encourage applicants from different backgrounds, locations, and experiences.