Software Engineer, GOAT

Frontend

$128.5-160.7k

React

CSS

TypeScript

HTML

JavaScript

Ruby

Next.js

Rails

Ruby on Rails

Junior and Mid level

Remote from US

More information about location

Marketplace for authentic streetwear

Job no longer available

Marketplace for authentic streetwear

501-1000 employees

B2CMarketplaceFashionConsumer GoodseCommerce

Job no longer available

$128.5-160.7k

React

CSS

TypeScript

HTML

JavaScript

Ruby

Next.js

Rails

Ruby on Rails

Junior and Mid level

Remote from US

More information about location

501-1000 employees

B2CMarketplaceFashionConsumer GoodseCommerce

Company mission

To bring the world’s greatest products together from the past, present and future, while providing a premier end-to-end customer experience with a point of view on culture and style.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

2+ years of frontend engineering experience
Experience building, maintaining, or architecting one or more production web applications
Experience with SSR, best practices for optimizations around SEO and performance
Can convert designs to responsive web elements
Preferably, you have professional experience with the technologies with which we work (React, Next.js, Typescript, Ruby on Rails)
Experience in web development fundamentals: HTML, CSS, Javascript, NextJS
Must be willing and able to work eastern timezone hours

Desirable

Experience working on a marketplace or e-commerce platform
Experience working in a Kanban style agile format

What the job involves

Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build features and improvements
Inform, build and support frontend architecture
Add to and improve our testing environment
QA and code review other engineers’ work
Write tests to support features
Support the team in building pages that are accessible and performant
Collaborate with backend and iOS team to ship seamless features
Participate in onboarding, and mentor and sponsor other engineers in your areas of expertise

Our take

GOAT is a resale marketplace built around one core promise: if you buy it there, it's real. Best known for sneakers, the company helped pioneer the "ship-to-verify" model, where sellers send items to GOAT first for authentication before they ever reach the buyer. In a market driven by hype and scarcity, that extra step has become a major trust signal, especially for high-value, hard-to-find pieces.

Alongside human authenticators, the company has invested heavily into machine learning - reportedly using tools like NVIDIA's deep learning tech - to improve speed and accuracy at scale. At the same time it hasn't stayed confined to sneakers. By acquiring Flight Club and Grailed, GOAT has expanded into physical retail and broader streetwear, giving it multiple ways to reach buyers and sellers.

Now GOAT sits in a competitive space alongside platforms like StockX, but its positioning feels slightly different. Think less transactional exchange, more curated marketplace with a strong brand identity. As resale continues to grow globally, GOAT's challenge will be maintaining that trust and curation as scale.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

46% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.7)

Trustpilot (3.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Jun 2021

$195m

SERIES F

Sep 2020

$100m

SERIES E

Total funding: $492.8m

Company HQ

Jefferson Park, Los Angeles, CA

Leadership

Eddy Lu

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Eddy graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science. Prior to co-founding GOAT in 2010, he was the owner of Bear Papas, an Equity Researcher at Lehman Brothers, and a Consultant at Deloitte.

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