Lead Backend Engineer

Posted 3 Days Ago
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3 Locations
Remote
Senior level
Fintech • Information Technology • Software • Financial Services • Cryptocurrency
The Role
Lead the backend engineering team to develop a B2C app using Typescript and NextJS, while managing PostgreSQL databases and ensuring security and scalability.
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About Veriswap

Veriswap is a barter marketplace for trading cards, operating within the $10B+ sports card secondary market. We're focused on creating a new swap economy because we firmly believe that the swaps market is 5x larger than the cash sales market for collectibles. Our mission is empower collectors by enabling them to trade sports cards anytime, anywhere.

Our founding team comes from Columbia (ex-IB) and from Brown (ex-Google). Together, we’re building something truly exciting, and we’re looking for driven individuals to help us shape the future of collectibles.

Why Veriswap?

  • $120m+ in transactions completed in 3 years
  • Have done transactions as large as $300k on our platform 
  • 3x growth in 2024
  • $10b+ market size. We believe that enabling a new mode of commerce (trading) will 5x that market size
  • 100,000 users and growing with bootstrapped profitability
  • Founded in 2021
  • On web, android, iOS
  • Team size: 18 (8 engineers/product, 10 ops)
  • Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA

Requirements

Responsibilities

-Write clean code in Typescript using NextJS as the framework.

-Architect database schemas for PostgreSQL database to efficiently store large amounts of data.

-Be involved in conversations surrounding product and strategy.

-A solid understanding of security, scalability, and efficiency for backend infrastructure.

-Understanding of REST API's.

-Hands-on experience with GitHub (pull requests, branches, commits...).

Must Haves:

-Experience working on B2C apps 

-Experience working on similar company types as Veriswap (Scale up phase, not 0->1)

-Leadership experience, leading a team of 3+ engineers

-Backend experience using NestJS: 4 years+

-PostgreSQL: 4 years+ 

-Typescript: 3 years+

-Google Cloud Run, Google Cloud SQL, GCP: 2 years+

-Direct work experience with Product Managers/UX Designers

Top Skills

GCP
Git
Google Cloud Run
Google Cloud Sql
Nestjs
Nextjs
Postgres
Typescript
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
13 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Veriswap is a peer-to-peer marketplace for swapping sports cards.

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