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 to help build and scale our core mobile experience on Android. You’ll play a critical role in developing high-performance, real-time features for a rapidly growing user base.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, cares deeply about product quality, and has experience shipping and scaling native Android applications used by millions.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain high-quality native Android applications using Kotlin.
Own features end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, testing, and release.
Collaborate closely with product, design, backend, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless user experiences.
Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability across a wide range of Android devices.
Contribute to architectural decisions and establish best practices for Android development.
Identify and proactively solve technical challenges before they impact users or development velocity.
Participate in code reviews and mentor engineers to elevate overall team quality.
Improve development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes.
What We’re Looking For
5+ years of professional Android development experience.
Proven track record of shipping multiple native Android applications to the Google Play Store.
Experience building and scaling large-scale applications supporting millions of users.
Deep expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack, Compose, and the Android SDK.
Strong understanding of Android architecture patterns (MVVM, MVI, etc.).
Experience with modern networking stacks (GraphQL, gRPC, and REST) and building real-time features on streaming transports (WebRTC, WebSockets, LiveKit, and Agora).
Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup environment with high ownership.
Nice to Have:
Experience with iOS development (Swift) and cross-platform considerations.
Familiarity with real-time, interactive, or live-streaming products.
Familiarity with Android-native Material Design components.
Fluency with AI development tools like Claude, Cursor, etc.
Salary & Benefits
Compensation: $150,000 - $200,000 base + 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 for time to recharge.
Competitive salary that reflects your impact and experience.
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.
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Engineering
124 days ago
Member of Technical Staff - QA
Favorited · Santa Monica, California, United States
Member of Technical Staff - QA
Location
Santa Monica, CA
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Engineering
Compensation
$125K – $135K • Offers Equity
Overview
Application
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 to ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of our fast-evolving platform. You’ll play a critical role in testing and validating features across a live service environment where rapid iteration and continuous deployment are core to how we build.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced startup environments, is highly product-minded, and is excited about delivering seamless, high-quality experiences to creators and users in real time.
Responsibilities
Own and execute end-to-end testing strategies across mobile and web platforms.
Work closely with engineering, product, and design teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
Test rapidly evolving features in a live service environment with frequent deployments and iterations.
Prioritize testing efforts based on risk, impact, and product timelines in a fast-moving environment.
Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, and test documentation for new and existing features.
Identify, document, and track bugs, ensuring clear communication and timely resolution.
Contribute to improving QA processes, tools, and automation frameworks where applicable.
Perform regression, functional, and exploratory testing to ensure product stability and performance.
Advocate for the user experience by ensuring a high-quality, intuitive, and engaging product.
What We’re Looking For
5+ years of experience in QA or software testing, ideally in startup environments.
Experience supporting live service products with rapid release cycles and continuous deployment.
Proven ability to move quickly, prioritize effectively, and test under tight timelines.
Strong experience partnering closely with engineering and cross-functional teams.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate issues and collaborate on solutions.
Experience testing mobile applications (iOS and/or Android).
Strong understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and best practices.
Highly detail-oriented with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
Experience with test automation frameworks and scripting.
Familiarity with real-time, live-streaming, or gaming products.
Passion for interactive experiences, live streaming, gaming, and empowering creators.
Salary & Benefits
Compensation: $125k - $135k base salary + options
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 for time 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.
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124 days ago
Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure
Favorited · Santa Monica, California, United States
Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure
Location
Santa Monica, CA
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Engineering
Compensation
$150K – $200K • Offers Equity
Overview
Application
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 are looking for a Member of Technical Staff to help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the infrastructure that powers favorited’s real-time platform. You will play a key role in building and maintaining systems that support high-traffic applications used by a rapidly growing global audience.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, improving system reliability, and building automation that allows engineering teams to move quickly and confidently.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain highly reliable and scalable infrastructure supporting real-time applications.
Build automation and tooling to improve system reliability, deployment processes, and operational efficiency.
Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability and rapid incident response.
Partner closely with engineering teams to improve service reliability, performance, and observability.
Support incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems, ensuring learnings are incorporated into system improvements.
Optimize infrastructure for performance, cost efficiency, and scalability.
Manage and scale containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, and related orchestration technologies.
Help define and enforce reliability standards, SLOs, and operational best practices across engineering teams.
Continuously evaluate new infrastructure tools and practices to improve system resilience and developer productivity.
What We’re Looking For
6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
Experience managing infrastructure for large-scale systems supporting millions of users.
Strong expertise with cloud infrastructure, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and distributed systems.
Experience implementing monitoring and observability systems (Dash0, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).
Strong scripting or programming experience in languages such as Python, Go, or TypeScript.
Deep understanding of reliability engineering practices including SLOs, SLIs, and incident management.
Strong collaboration skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering teams.
Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking and emerging protocols like HTTP/3.
Nice to Have:
Experience supporting real-time streaming, gaming, or large-scale consumer applications.
Familiarity with event-driven architectures and large-scale data processing systems.
Experience optimizing infrastructure costs in high-growth environments.
Practical experience integrating AI agents into DevOps workflows.
Salary & Benefits
Compensation: $150k - $200k base salary + options.
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 for time 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.
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