Senior Backend Software Engineer

About this role

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Role Overview</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>In this role, you will:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build features and improvements</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Extend our API and back-end systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Interface directly with our PostgreSQL cluster</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Add to and improve our testing environment</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Solve challenges in architecture, security, anti-fraud, performance, scalability, personalization, optimization, payments and more</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Be a helpful and supportive presence on the team, contributing to code reviews and other team processes</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Keep up with the latest development trends in server-side technologies</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mentor and sponsor other engineers in your areas of expertise</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Coordinate and communicate seamlessly across other technical and product teams</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Be part of an on-call rotation</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Use LLMs, when appropriate, to improve the product and development workflows </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>We are looking for:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">4+ years of engineering experience.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience building, maintaining, or architecting one or more production web applications.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Knowledge of and opinions on API design, database design, naming, and simplifying complex services.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Understanding of operational concerns such as deployment, migrations, configuration, and provisioning.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Professional experience with the technologies with which we work (Ruby on Rails with Sorbet, PostgreSQL, AWS).</span></li> </ul> <p><strong><em>One last thing</em></strong><em> — add a quick note at the bottom of your resume (1–3 lines): what drew you to Grailed and this role, and a recent buying or selling experience on any marketplace and what made it stand out or fall flat. There are no wrong answers — we actually read all of these.</em></p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" data-sheets-root="1" data-sheets-baot="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOAT Group uses geographic pay tiers based on the employee’s home state to align compensation with market differences across the U.S.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hiring Range:</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Tier 1 (Includes states such as California, New York (including New York City), Washington, Illinois and other higher-cost markets)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">$146,800 - $183,400 USD</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Tier 2 - (Includes mid-cost markets across the U.S.)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">$132,200 - $165,200 USD</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Tier 3 - (All other U.S. locations)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt;">$124,800 - $156,000…