Senior Backend Software Engineer

Role Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend, to solve complex problems gracefully, grow scalable systems, and help to shape our technical vision. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll take an active role in breaking down projects into tasks, as well as the implementation methods used. We are solving a wide range of technical challenges as we power a leading fashion marketplace.

This is an opportunity to join a team of smart, thoughtful engineers with a clean, robust tech stack. We are organized into cross-functional squads, where you'll get to use some skills you already know, learn new ones, and help take the team to the next level. We are community driven, and supporting our sellers is critical as our marketplace continues to grow and thrive.

In this role, you will:

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build features and improvements
• Extend our API and back-end systems
• Interface directly with our PostgreSQL cluster
• Add to and improve our testing environment
• Solve challenges in architecture, security, anti-fraud, performance, scalability, personalization, optimization, payments and more
• Be a helpful and supportive presence on the team, contributing to code reviews and other team processes
• Keep up with the latest development trends in server-side technologies
• Mentor and sponsor other engineers in your areas of expertise
• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly across other technical and product teams
• Be part of an on-call rotation
• Use LLMs, when appropriate, to improve the product and development workflows

We are looking for:

• 4+ years of engineering experience
• Experience building, maintaining, or architecting one or more production web applications
• Knowledge of and opinions on API design, database design, naming, and simplifying complex services
• Understanding of operational concerns such as deployment, migrations, configuration, and provisioning
• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails with Sorbet, PostgreSQL, AWS

Compensation

• Tier 1 (CA, NY, WA, IL, and other higher-cost markets): $146,800 – $183,400 USD
• Tier 2 (Mid-cost markets): $132,200 – $165,200 USD
• Tier 3 (All other U.S. locations): $124,800 – $156,000 USD

Benefits: 401K, paid time off, dental, medical, vision, disability, life insurance options.

About GOAT Group

GOAT Group represents the leading platforms for authentic sneakers, apparel and accessories. Operating four distinct brands–GOAT, Flight Club, Grailed and alias–GOAT Group has a global community of more than 60 million members across 170 countries.

GOAT is the global platform for the greatest products from the past, present and future. Since its founding in 2015, GOAT has become one of the leading and most trusted sneaker platforms in the world, offering styles across various time periods on its digital platforms and in its retail locations.

Flight Club, established in New York City over 15 years ago, revolutionized sneaker retail as the original consignment store for rare shoes. With three brick-and-mortar locations in New York City, Los Angeles and Miami, Flight Club remains the premier source for authentic, rare sneakers.

Grailed, founded in 2013, is the leading community-driven marketplace for rare luxury, streetwear and vintage fashion, featuring products from brands including Supreme, Raf Simons, Gucci, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Prada and more.

The company is backed by Foot Locker, Inc. and leading venture capital firms including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Matrix Partners, and Y Combinator.