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# Member of Technical Staff - Management at Favorited

- **Company:** Favorited
- **Location:** Santa Monica, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/favorited/18db62ad-bfcd-4215-a2a9-4a7d6cab59af

## Job description

Job Title: Member of Technical Staff - Management Location: Santa Monica, CA (On-site) Employment Type: Full-time Level: Senior / Leadership Company: favorited

## ABOUT FAVORITED

At favorited, we believe that digital communities should be more than just spaces to watch content. Our platform is a place to connect, engage, and play, and empowers creators by enhancing audience participation and fostering deeper connections.

Our work culture is intense and isn’t for everyone. But, if you’re a self-starter eager to shape the future of social interaction with a team that holds itself to the highest standards, this is the place for you. We value open, yet respectful communication and real-time feedback to help each other grow quickly. If you’re passionate about gaming and have a knack for gamifying everyday life, you’ll thrive in our fast-moving, collaborative environment.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Member of Technical Staff - Management to serve as a senior leader within our engineering organization. This role combines engineering leadership, people management, technical strategy, and execution, with responsibility for helping the team deliver the products and infrastructure that power favorited.

You’ll manage and develop engineering teams while working closely with executive and cross-functional leaders across product, design, operations, and marketing. You’ll help translate company priorities into technical plans, lead architectural and planning efforts, and ensure the organization consistently delivers against key milestones.

This is a role for an experienced engineering leader who has built and scaled consumer products in startup environments and knows how to balance technical excellence with speed, product impact, and business priorities.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead and manage engineering teams across areas such as mobile, backend, and infrastructure.
- Partner closely with executive and cross-functional leaders to establish priorities, roadmaps, and key milestones.
- Own engineering planning and execution, ensuring teams are aligned and consistently delivering against commitments.
- Lead technical architecture and system design decisions across the organization.
- Translate product and business goals into clear technical strategies and execution plans.
- Work closely with Product and Design to ensure engineering decisions support an exceptional consumer experience.
- Build and maintain a high-performing engineering organization through hiring, mentorship, performance management, and team development.
- Establish strong engineering practices around planning, prioritization, code quality, reliability, and delivery.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and organizational blockers before they impact key milestones.
- Help determine where to invest in technical infrastructure, architecture, and engineering capabilities as the company scales.
- Provide technical leadership across complex projects while empowering engineers to own implementation.
- Balance short-term delivery with the long-term scalability and health of the engineering organization.
- Foster a culture of high ownership, open and respectful communication, accountability, and continuous improvement.

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with meaningful experience in engineering leadership or management.
- Previous experience working at a startup or high-growth technology company.
- Proven experience building and scaling consumer-focused products globally.
- Strong engineering background in one or more of:
- Native mobile development
- Full-Stack engineering
- Backend engineering
- Infrastructure / platform engineering
- Experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, and engineering planning.
- Proven ability to lead teams through 0 → 1 product development and 1 → 10+ scale.
- Strong track record of shipping products used by significant numbers of consumers.
- Ability to work effectively with executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Strong product instincts and an understanding of how technical decisions impact the user experience and business.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy, urgency, and ownership in a fast-paced environment.

## WHAT STANDS OUT

- Experience scaling a consumer product to millions of users globally.
- Experience leading engineering organizations through periods of rapid growth.
- Background in gaming, livestreaming, social, or other highly interactive consumer products.
- Experience building mobile applications and/or real-time consumer experiences.
- Strong technical depth that allows you to engage meaningfully in architectural and engineering discussions.
- Experience building teams and engineering processes from the ground up.
- A passion for creating products that bring together gaming, social interaction, livestreaming, and creators.
- Someone who can move comfortably between technical architecture, product strategy, and people leadership.

## SALARY & BENEFITS

Compensation: $165k - $185k base salary + equity

Benefits Include:

- Unlimited PTO to prioritize work-life balance.
- 401(k) plan to invest in your future.
- Comprehensive health insurance to support your well-being.
- Paid company holidays to recharge.
- Competitive salary that values your expertise and contributions.

Where You’ll Work: This is a full-time, on-site position in Santa Monica.

EEOC Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About Favorited

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Favorited is a creator-first interactive live-streaming platform that makes live content more fun, personal, and engaging for both creators and their audiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Monica, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: David Tesler (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Social/Platform Software, Media and Information Services (B2B), Mobile Computing Software
- **Target customers**: B2C (live-streaming creators and their viewers), with strong focus on gaming and interactive content communities
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Make live content more fun, personal, and interactive — for you and your audience.”

## Products & Services
- **[Favorited Platform]**: An interactive live-streaming application that provides tools for creators to engage with their audience in real-time, build a following, and boost earnings through gamification and in-app interactions. Type: SaaS / Mobile App.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — $2.05M (Seed rounds: $1.3M in Jan 2025, $750K accelerator in 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Abstract Ventures, Hacker Fellowship Zero, Integra Groupe, Parable Partners Management, Soma Ventures (PitchBook). A recent TechCrunch article also mentions backing from a16z, though this is not reflected in PitchBook’s investor list (conflicting reports).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew ~685% YoY to ~45-50 employees (LinkedIn/PitchBook). Recent news coverage (Jan 2025) and a rapidly expanding user base. Presence in US, Czechia, Canada, and UK.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Creator-first design** with built-in monetization and audience engagement tools (e.g., in-app characters, gamified interactions).
- **Real-time, interactive experience** that differentiates from passive live-streaming platforms.
- **Strong technical foundation** using modern infrastructure (Kubernetes, GCP, real-time streaming, event-driven architecture).

## Strategic Focus
- Empowering creators to reduce content creation burden and increase earnings.
- Expanding global user base and deepening community features.
- Scaling platform reliability and performance to support high-traffic, real-time applications.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, intense, and collaborative environment. Values open, respectful communication and real-time feedback. Ideal for self-starters passionate about gaming and social interaction.
- **Work Model**: Full-time, on-site position in Santa Monica, CA.
- **Notable Perks**: Unlimited PTO, comprehensive health insurance, 401(k) plan, paid company holidays, competitive salary + equity options (e.g., SRE role $150K–$200K base).
- **Engineering Culture**: Modern tech stack (GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Go, TypeScript). Emphasis on reliability, scalability, and automation.

## Sources
1. [favorited.com](https://www.favorited.com/)
2. [Jobs at Favorited (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/favorited/406e86ad-92de-4238-85c0-fc55920346f0)
3. [PitchBook - Favorited Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/527370-13)
4. [LinkedIn - Favorited](https://www.linkedin.com/company/favapp)

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