Favorited
Creator & Fan Platforms · Social Networks
4open roles
$170kmedian advertised pay
3backers · Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract Ventures
Growinghiring pace, 62 of 100
Overview
Favorited is a social platform that lets people go live with their favorite people and empowers creators by enhancing audience participation and deeper connections. It describes its platform as a place to connect, engage and play, and hires infrastructure and Android engineers, a social media manager, a recruiter and an IT, security and compliance manager. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States.
How Favorited hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Favorited scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Hiring now
7
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract Ventures
Momentum
6/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 24, 2022
Released an app favorited · App Store
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.79%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.6 ★
8.3k ratings
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs
$150k – $200k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Santa Monica
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Kotlin
Swift
Cursor
Claude
LiveKit
Frontend
GraphQL
Mobile
Jetpack Compose
MVI
Android SDK
MVVM
Material Design
Agora
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$150k – $200k per year · In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · Santa Monica
Python
Go
TypeScript
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DevOps
GCP
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$170k
Typical range
$120k – $200k
Open positions
7
7
Jobs
Middle
42.9%
Senior
14.3%
Staff
42.9%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 3 | $125k | $120k – $168k |
| Senior | 1 | $170k | $170k |
| Staff | 3 | $200k | $200k |
Highest paying role
Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure
$200k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Favorited
By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
7
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
41 days
faster than 33% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Mobile
25% ▲
HR
25% ▼
Management
25% ▲
Marketing
25% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added MVC to stack
Oct 2026
Added Java to stack
Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Oct 2026
Added SOC 2 to stack
Oct 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Oct 2026
Added ISO 27001 to stack
Oct 2026
Added GDPR to stack
Oct 2026
Added AWS to stack
Oct 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Favorited over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
34
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Kotlin
Swift
Go
Java
Frameworks & libraries
Jetpack Compose
Cloud & platforms
GCP
AWS
Agora
Android SDK
AI & ML
Claude
ChatGPT
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34 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors
Abstract VenturesVia a fund
Andreessen HorowitzVia a fund
854 portfolio companies
Soma CapitalVia a fund
876 portfolio companies
Click a company to open it. Dashed lines are likely connections. The second step of the network is part of the Pro plan.
Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
News
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Santa Monica
Santa Monica
United States
HQ
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 43% engineering $169k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Marketing, Mobile