Software Engineer: Core Marketplace & Exchange (Backend)

Tradepost; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity Offered

Job summary

Tradepost is building liquidity infrastructure for real-world assets. We’re scaling Core Marketplace & Exchange to move assets like Pokémon cards and collectibles into instant trading and settlement.

You’ll own the infra, understand users, and help launch net-new products that redefine how people trade and invest in cultural assets. This is a fast-growing, high-impact engineering role with equity in a tight-knit team.

Responsibilities

• Own Core Marketplace & Exchange Infra
• Understand Our Users
• Launch New Products

Job description

Tradepost is building the liquidity infrastructure for the real world. We believe that everything you own should be instantly tradeable. Today you can trade stocks and crypto in seconds, but the things you actually own Pokémon cards, collectibles, watches, sports cars take weeks to sell, ship, and settle. Tradepost is closing that gap one asset class at a time.

We’re backed by Andreessen Horowitz, alongside angel investors who are current and former executives at Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Investments, Alt, Ticketmaster, Opendoor, and more. We’re a small team that’s been in this hobby our whole lives, and we know what it takes to bring these asset classes to the next level.

We’re a small scrappy team of hustlers going up against $10B companies to modernize an industry that hasn’t changed much since the dot-com era, and we’re looking for an engineer to join us as we scale our Core Marketplace & Exchange business toward $100M/month and beyond. You’ll be an integral part of shaping how everyone in the world trades and investments in Cultural Assets with the opportunity (and expectation) to make a massive impact on one of the fastest-growing products in the space.

Your Role

• Own Core Marketplace & Exchange Infra: Take ownership of products and features across our core Marketplace and Exchange as we continue to ship, scale, and maintain the products already driving real volume.

• Understand Our Users: Our team grew up reselling and trading the asset classes we serve, and we want you to think like our users and put yourself in their shoes.

• Launch New Products: Help build and launch net-new businesses, never-before-tried products, and lines of business that will change the future of Cultural Assets forever

What You’ll Work On

• Marketplace: Our first and flagship product where sellers can sell instantly and ship their assets to verified market makers

• Live Trading: Trade on verified and secured Cultural Assets instantly without ever touching the products

• Tradepost Terminal: Our Trading Terminal for professional market makers and businesses providing liquidity on Tradepost

What We Look For

• Speed: You move fast once you know exactly what it is you want

• Extreme Agency: You know what works and you’re not afraid to speak up when you think you’re right

• You’re a Hustler: We admire people who are always finding a new angle to make money, not just doing what’s in front of them.

• You Bet on Yourself: You’ve taken real risk on something you believed in and built something, walked away from something safe, or backed something nobody else would.

• You Have Great Business Sense: You not only can understand the “what” and “how” to build something but also the “why” and why it’s important for our mission.

• You’ve worked on something with high stakes: You’ve worked on production systems that require you to be extremely diligent and thoughtful but aren’t afraid to move fast anyway.

Compensation

• Base Salary: $135,000 - $200,000

• Equity Offered