[Hiring] Web Engineer @Rare Candy

Role Description

We’re hiring a mid-level Web Engineer to build the web experiences collectors use to discover products, manage their collections, shop drops, and open Instapacks.

• Work closely with the CTO and product, design, and engineering teams to take features from idea to production.
• This is a hands-on product engineering role for someone comfortable building modern web applications who can own a feature, make thoughtful technical decisions, and deliver a polished experience.
• You won’t be handed endless tickets in a giant backlog; you’ll help shape solutions, work through tradeoffs, and take responsibility for how your features perform once they’re in collectors’ hands.
• If you love trading cards or collector communities and want meaningful ownership at a fast-moving startup, this is a role for you.

What Success Looks Like

• First 30 days: Get the web app running locally, understand the core product flows and frontend architecture, and ship your first meaningful improvements.
• By day 90: Independently deliver well-scoped web features, clarify requirements, collaborate with design and backend engineers, implement the experience, test it, and verify it in production.
• By the end of year one: Own important areas of the web product, ship meaningful improvements to the collector experience, raise the bar for performance and usability, and make the codebase easier for the team to build on.

What You'll Do

• Build and improve responsive web experiences across Rare Candy’s collector-facing product.
• Develop maintainable interfaces using React, TypeScript, and modern web tooling.
• Integrate with GraphQL APIs and collaborate with backend engineers on data requirements and API contracts.
• Own features from technical planning through implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-up improvements.
• Build reusable components and consistent interaction patterns that help the team ship faster.
• Make experiences work well across devices and browsers, with attention to accessibility, loading states, error handling, and performance.
• Investigate production bugs and address the underlying causes.
• Work closely with product and design to balance user needs, technical constraints, and delivery timelines.
• Contribute thoughtful code reviews and communicate clearly about progress, tradeoffs, and blockers.

You Might Be a Fit If

• You have around 3–5 years of web engineering experience and have shipped meaningful features in production.
• You’re comfortable building with React and TypeScript and have strong fundamentals in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• You can take a feature from a product brief or design through implementation and release without needing every step spelled out.
• You’ve worked with GraphQL or REST APIs and understand data fetching, caching, and client-side state management.
• You know how to build responsive, accessible interfaces and care about the details that make a web experience feel good.
• You can reason through component design, rendering behavior, and performance tradeoffs without overcomplicating the solution.
• You write useful tests and know how to debug issues across the browser, network requests, and API responses.
• You communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and work well with designers, product partners, and other engineers.
• You’re comfortable in a fast-moving startup where priorities can shift and you’re expected to help find the path forward.
• You know the trading-card or collector world. You collect, play, rip packs, follow the market, or have real fluency in a similar collectible space.

What You'll Need to Thrive Here

• You’re expected to take ownership of your role at Rare Candy and drive your own growth, with support, context, and mentorship along the way.
• The systems are still evolving, the team is small, and your work will matter immediately. You'll need to be curious, detail-oriented, and comfortable learning by doing.
• If you like to build internal tools, solve operational issues, and the idea of building tools you would actually want to use yourself, you'll do great here.

Why Join Us Now

• Work on features collectors actually care about and are using every day.
• Get real ownership early in your career while learning directly from experienced engineering leadership.
• Join a high-trust, low-ego team that ships fast, celebrates wins, and cares deeply about the hobby.
• Competitive startup compensation, meaningful equity upside, and a salary range of $140,000-$160,000.
• Full benefits: health, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), and a wellness stipend.
• A monthly dogfooding budget to spend on cards, because we hire people who love this hobby.

How to Apply

• Apply through our Ashby posting and answer these:
• Describe a web first app you built. What did you own, what technical choices did you make, and what was the result?
• Explain a bug you debugged. What made it tricky, how did you track it down, and what did you learn?
• What trading-card or collector communities do you understand best? Tell us your favorite card, set, format, deck, rip, or collector niche.

Rare Candy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate individuality, from Pikachu collectors to Planeswalker pros, and are committed to building an inclusive team.