Go Backend Developer

🕒 September 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

👻 Ghost score 19%

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Rare Candy

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2 - 10 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🏪 Marketplace

🎮 Gaming

💰 Seed Round - Rare Candy on 2024-09

eCommerce • Marketplace • Gaming

Rare Candy is an online retailer and marketplace specializing in collectible trading card games and related products. The company operates an e-commerce platform offering verified cards, booster boxes, vintage and Japanese graded packs, exclusive drops, auction features, and community features for collectors. Its catalog and community focus on games such as Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! , Lorcana, and Gundam TCG, positioning Rare Candy as a hub for buying, selling, and connecting collectors.

📋 Description

• Build and improve backend services in Go for Rare Candy’s collector-facing product • Develop and maintain GraphQL APIs with mobile and frontend engineers • Design and evolve relational data models • Write efficient SQL and safely implement database changes • Implement business logic, background jobs, and third-party integrations for collections, marketplace activity, and Instapacks • Write automated tests • Investigate production bugs • Improve reliability and performance using logs and metrics • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to turn ideas into shipped experiences • Get the backend running locally and understand core services and data models • Ship backend fixes and features, including well-scoped features implemented, tested, deployed, and verified in production • Contribute reliably across important parts of the product and take ownership of increasingly important features

🎯 Requirements

• Around 5–7 years of backend development experience • Production system or serious side-project experience shipping real features • Comfortable building in Go, including error handling, interfaces, concurrency basics, and testing • Experience building or maintaining APIs • GraphQL experience is a plus, or willingness to learn GraphQL from a REST background • Experience with relational databases and SQL, including schema design, joins, indexes, and transactions • Focus on correctness, reliability, and maintainable code • Comfortable using logs and debugging tools to trace problems through APIs, services, or databases • Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup with shifting priorities • Knowledge of the trading-card or collector world, or fluency in a similar collectible space • Curious, detail-oriented, and comfortable learning by doing • Required to submit a resume • Required to answer application questions about a Go service, debugging experience, and trading-card or collector communities • Location field is required in the application

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity upside • Health coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • 401(k) • Wellness stipend • Monthly dogfooding budget to spend on cards • Mentorship and support from experienced engineering leadership • Equal opportunity and inclusive team environment

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