Rare Candy is a new collectibles marketplace built by fans of trading card games and other collectibles. Backed by Purple Arch Ventures.
About the role
We’re hiring a Go Backend Developer to help build the services and APIs that power Rare Candy, from managing collections and marketplace transactions to opening Instapacks. You’ll work closely with the CTO and engineering team to ship backend features that collectors rely on every day. This is a hands-on product engineering role for someone who already knows how to build in Go, has experience with APIs and relational databases, and wants to grow quickly inside a fast-moving startup. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- You have around 5-7 years of backend development experience and have shipped real features in a production system or serious side project
- You’re comfortable building in Go and understand error handling, interfaces, concurrency basics, and testing
- You’ve built or maintained APIs. GraphQL experience is a plus, and you’re comfortable learning it if your background is primarily REST
- You’ve worked with relational databases and SQL, including schema design, joins, indexes, and transactions
- You care about correctness, reliability, and maintainable code. You think through what happens when a request fails, runs twice, or encounters unexpected data
- You’re comfortable using logs and debugging tools to trace a problem through an API, service, or database
More about this role
Rare Candy is revolutionizing the $25 billion trading-card industry as the “friendly local game shop” in the palm of your hands. Collectors use our AI-powered card scanner, open their favorite chase cards with Instapacks, and keep track of them with our data-rich collection tools which showcases Pokémon, MTG, Lorcana, One Piece, and more. We've hit 10x revenue growth over the last 6 months, the business is profitable, and we're building the team to take this from a great product to a category-defining one.
We're a 10-person product team moving fast and looking for the next set of TCG-obsessed rock stars to join our team.
We’re hiring a Go Backend Developer to help build the services and APIs that power Rare Candy, from managing collections and marketplace transactions to opening Instapacks.
You’ll work closely with the CTO and engineering team to ship backend features that collectors rely on every day. This is a hands-on product engineering role for someone who already knows how to build in Go, has experience with APIs and relational databases, and wants to grow quickly inside a fast-moving startup.
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