Senior Backend Software Engineer, GOAT

$124.8-183.4k

Salary is dependent on locaiton

AWS

Postgres

Ruby on Rails

Mid and Senior level

Remote from US

Marketplace for authentic streetwear

Be an early applicant

Marketplace for authentic streetwear

501-1000 employees

B2CMarketplaceFashionConsumer GoodseCommerce

Be an early applicant

$124.8-183.4k

Salary is dependent on locaiton

AWS

Postgres

Ruby on Rails

Mid and Senior level

Remote from US

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

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 the technologies with which we work (Ruby on Rails with Sorbet, PostgreSQL, AWS)

What the job involves

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
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

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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