Beacons

An AI-powered, all-in-one business platform for content creators

Senior Software Engineer

$180K - $205K
Location
San Francisco / New York, NY, US
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
6+ years
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About the role

What We Do:

Beacons is the easiest way to build a website that your fans will love! We help creators centralize their online brand presences, connect with their audiences and partners in a streamlined way, and better understand how to build and improve their businesses.

We're excited to tackle the rapidly growing, $200 billion creator economy. There's a huge opportunity to help creators build the businesses of tomorrow, and we're positioned to build the defining solution.

We're looking for a Sr. Fullstack Engineer who will work in React to build out our web app. As one of our senior engineers, you'd play a key role in building out our engineering function and scaling our product to billions of page views per day. You'd work closely with our CTO and our other co-founders with tons of autonomy and room for growth.

TLDR:

  • We’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to lead and own large parts of the product, from ideation to implementation
  • Balanced BE (Python) and FE (React)
  • SF and NY offices are hybrid, 3 days in office!

About You:

  • You are proficient in Javascript to power our frontend React app. Familiarity with Firebase is a plus
  • Are strong with Python to power our backend. Familiarity with Flask is a plus
  • Possess a customer-centric mindset and have strong empathy for creators
  • Have familiarity with SQL and Postgres
  • Enjoy and have experience working at small, fast-paced startups
  • Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy scoping solutions with your teammates
  • Have some experience with design software like Figma
  • Play for the front of the jersey, love to learn and bias toward action!

What You’d Be Working On:

  • Building products that get millions of page views a day and scaling it to billions per day Leading frontend development with delightful UIUX
  • Creating systems and seeing how all the moving pieces interact

What We Can Offer:

  • Competitive salary and equity grant. We have a standard four year vesting schedule with one year cliff
  • We give 4 weeks off total and we want you to use them! This is on top of federal holidays 🇺🇸🎉
  • Platinum level medical, vision, and dental insurance with 99% employer-paid premiums for employees and coverage for eligible dependents
  • 401(k) retirement savings and investing plan
  • Gym and professional development stipends
  • Computer, monitor, and home office setup reimbursement. We will get you what you need to do your best work! ***The salary range is 185k-205k base for this role

If you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. No matter what you come in knowing, you'll be learning new things all the time and we'll be here to help! Our team still has a lot to learn and if you join us, we would love for you to learn and grow with us!

About Beacons

Beacons is creating new economic opportunities for creators.

We believe that the future of work is going to see more people constructing a career (and a life, since the two are more intertwined than ever) that they really enjoy around who they are — and creators are the first wave. If you’re excited for this future and want to help us get there sooner, please get in touch!

We're currently 20+ people, half based in San Francisco and half remote.

Beacons
Founded:2019
Team Size:40
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Neal Jean
Neal Jean
Co-founder, CEO
David Zeng
David Zeng
Founder
Jesse Zhang
Jesse Zhang
Founder