Senior Backend Software Engineer

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend, to solve complex problems gracefully, grow scalable systems, and help to shape our technical vision. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll take an active role in breaking down projects into tasks, as well as the implementation methods used. We are solving a wide range of technical challenges as we power a leading fashion marketplace.

This is an opportunity to join a team of smart, thoughtful engineers with a clean, robust tech stack. We are organized into cross‑functional squads, where you’ll get to use some skills you already know, learn new ones, and help take the team to the next level. We are community driven, and supporting our sellers is critical as our marketplace continues to grow and thrive.

In this role, you will:

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build features and improvements
• Extend our API and back‑end systems
• Interface directly with our PostgreSQL cluster
• Add to and improve our testing environment
• Solve challenges in architecture, security, anti‑fraud, performance, scalability, personalization, optimization, payments and more
• Be a helpful and supportive presence on the team, contributing to code reviews and other team processes
• Keep up with the latest development trends in server‑side technologies
• Mentor and sponsor other engineers in your areas of expertise
• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly across other technical and product teams
• Be part of an on‑call rotation
• Use LLMs, when appropriate, to improve the product and development workflows

We are looking for:

• 4+ years of engineering experience.
• Experience building, maintaining, or architecting one or more production web applications.
• Knowledge of and opinions on API design, database design, naming, and simplifying complex services.
• Understanding of operational concerns such as deployment, migrations, configuration, and provisioning.
• Professional experience with the technologies with which we work (Ruby on Rails with Sorbet, PostgreSQL, AWS).

GOAT Group uses geographic pay tiers based on the employee’s home state to align compensation with market differences across the U.S.

Hiring Range:

Tier 1 (Includes states such as California, New York (including New York City), Washington, Illinois and other higher‑cost markets)
$146,800 - $183,400

Tier 2 – (Includes mid‑cost markets across the U.S.)
$132,200 - $165,200

Tier 3 – (All other U.S. locations)
$124,800 - $156,000

The hiring range for this position is below, plus benefits (401K, paid time off, dental, medical, vision, disability, life insurance options). To determine starting pay within the hiring range, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, role/level, a candidate’s skills, experience, market demands, and internal parity. You may reach out to a recruiter for additional information.

Hiring Range:
$124,800 — $183,400 USD

GOAT Group represents the leading platforms for authentic sneakers, apparel and accessories. Operating four distinct brands–GOAT, Flight Club, Grailed and alias–GOAT Group has a global community of more than 60 million members across 170 countries.

GOAT is the global platform for the greatest products from the past, present and future. Since its founding in 2015, GOAT has become one of the leading and most trusted sneaker platforms in the world, and has expanded to offer apparel and accessories from select emerging, contemporary and iconic brands.

Established in New York City over 15 years ago, Flight Club revolutionized sneaker retail as the original consignment store for rare shoes. Carrying the rarest exclusives and collectible sneakers, Flight Club has evolved from a one‑stop sneaker destination, to a cultural hub for sneaker enthusiasts and novices alike. With three brick‑and‑mortar locations in New York City, Los Angeles and Miami, Flight Club remains the premier source for authentic, rare sneakers.

Founded in 2013, Grailed is the leading community‑driven marketplace for rare luxury, streetwear and vintage fashion. The marketplace was built for enthusiasts, by enthusiasts, and features products from brands including Supreme, Raf Simons, Gucci, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Prada and more. With a highly curated selection of resale pieces, Grailed makes fashion accessible.

The company is backed by strategic investor Foot Locker, Inc. as well as some of the leading names in venture capital including Park West Asset Management, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Franklin Templeton, Adage Capital Management, Ulysses Management, D1 Capital Partners, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Matrix Partners, Upfront Ventures, Webb Investment Network and Y Combinator.