At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead frontend development for an innovative marketplace, creating seamless user experiences.
- Company: Exciting venture-backed startup transforming the collectibles market.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity options, and a chance to shape the future of trading.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team with opportunities for rapid career growth and innovation.
- Why this job: Be the first frontend engineer and make a real impact in a fast-growing startup.
- Qualifications: Strong skills in TypeScript and React, with a passion for design and performance.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
This venture-backed startup is building a new kind of marketplace for collectables. It combines the thrill of opening a pack with full transparency: published odds, live market pricing and results nobody can change after purchase. It launched to an invite-only community a month ago and has already processed thousands of sales and six-figure transaction volume, with some of the world's biggest trading card sellers already on board. The longer-term goal is trusted infrastructure for pricing, storing and trading collectables (art, watches, cars) as a genuine asset class.
The role involves being the first and sole Frontend engineering hire, owning everything users see and touch. The goal is a marketplace that never lags, a reveal that feels instant and numbers users understand at a glance. You'll work directly with the technical co-founder (quant background, product, backend and pricing), alongside a motion designer and a design agency. You'll set the frontend architecture, ship every week and kick-start the mobile app.
What you'll work on:
- The reveal: making a server-decided outcome feel instant, with motion, suspense and sound
- The catalogue: thousands of high-resolution card images that load fast on a mid-range phone
- Live pricing: market prices and odds updating in real time, plus portfolio charts
- Money flows: checkout, buyback and payouts that never show a wrong number
- Seller tools: a pack builder that power users live in
- Mobile: a design system that carries through to a cross-platform app
- AI: tooling and agents built into how the team builds
About you:
- You live frontend: deep TypeScript and React, and you go deep rather than wide
- You have an eye for design and notice a dropped frame or an off colour before anyone else
- You've built consumer products, marketplaces or live commerce where the details matter
- You measure performance: profiling, testing and load testing, with numbers before and after
- You have a portfolio or work you can show
- You ship fast without dropping quality, and you think about what could go wrong for the customer
- You use AI heavily and thoughtfully. It does your typing, not your thinking.
*Trajectory matters more than years of experience. If you learn fast, set ambitious targets and hold strong opinions loosely, we want to hear from you.
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