Web Engineer

Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

A mid-level Web Engineer will build web experiences for collectors to discover products, manage collections, shop drops, and open Instapacks. You will work with the CTO and product, design, and engineering teams to take features from idea to production.

What you will do

Build and improve responsive web experiences across the collector-facing product.
Develop maintainable interfaces using React, TypeScript, and modern web tooling.
Integrate with GraphQL APIs and collaborate with backend engineers.
Own features from technical planning through implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-up.
Build reusable components and consistent interaction patterns.
Make experiences work well across devices and browsers.
Investigate production bugs and address underlying causes.
Work with product and design to balance user needs and technical constraints.
Contribute thoughtful code reviews.

Required qualifications

Around 3–5 years of web engineering experience.
Shipped meaningful features in production.
Comfortable building with React and TypeScript.
Strong fundamentals in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Ability to take a feature from a product brief or design through implementation and release.
Worked with GraphQL or REST APIs.
Understand data fetching, caching, and client-side state management.
Know how to build responsive, accessible interfaces.
Can reason through component design, rendering behavior, and performance tradeoffs.
Write useful tests.
Know how to debug issues across the browser, network requests, and API responses.
Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.

Nice to have

Know the trading-card or collector world.

Benefits

Health coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
401(k)
Wellness stipend
Monthly dogfooding budget to spend on cards

Before you apply

Describe a web first app you built.
Explain a bug you debugged.
Identify trading-card or collector communities you understand best.

About the company

Rare Candy is a 10-person product team revolutionizing the trading-card industry with an AI-powered card scanner and collection tools. The business is profitable and has hit 10x revenue growth over the last 6 months.