Web Engineer

Web Engineer

Location: Fully Remote
Compensation: $140,, competitive startup comp, and meaningful equity upside
Department: Engineering
Reports to: CTO

Rare Candy is revolutionizing the $25 billion trading-card industry as the “friendly local game shop” in the palm of your hands. Collectors use our AI-powered card scanner, open their favorite chase cards with Instapacks, and keep track of them with our data-rich collection tools which showcases Pokémon, MTG, Lorcana, One Piece, and more. We've hit 10x revenue growth over the last 6 months, the business is profitable, and we're building the team to take this from a great product to a category-defining one.

We're a 10-person product team moving fast and looking for the next set of TCG-obsessed rock stars to join our team.

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.

You’ll 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.

First 30 days: You get the web app running locally, understand the core product flows and frontend architecture, and ship your first meaningful improvements.

By day 90: You’re independently delivering well‑scoped web features. You can clarify requirements, collaborate with design and backend engineers, implement the experience, test it, and verify it in production.

By the end of year one: You own important areas of the web product. You’ve shipped meaningful improvements to the collector experience, raised the bar for performance and usability, and made the codebase easier for the team to build on.

• Build and improve responsive web experiences across Rare Candy’s collector-facing product.

• Develop maintainable interfaces using React, Type Script, 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 start the morning reviewing feedback on a recently shipped feature and checking how it’s performing for collectors.

Mid‑morning, you’re working with design and a backend engineer to scope a new collection browsing experience, thinking through the API, filtering behavior, and mobile layout.

After lunch, you’re building the interface, connecting it to live data, and handling loading, empty, and error states. You catch a slow interaction and track it down before opening your PR.

Later in the day, you’re in a product discussion about an upcoming drop, bringing both your web engineering…