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Founding Engineering Lead
Job in
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90079, USA
Listed on 2026-09-01
Listing for:
Pulltrader, Inc.
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-01
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Full Stack Developer, AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Cloud Engineer - Software, Backend Developer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Engineering
· Remote, Los Angeles, Palo Alto
· Full-time
Pulltrader is building the infrastructure layer for the trading card economy, powering modern storefronts, marketplace distribution, and AI-driven pricing tools for collectors, high-volume sellers, and local card shops. We have traction, a full-stack product, and a clear category to win. We're now building the early team.
This is a Founding Operator role with real equity and direct partnership with the founders.
- 1.75% equity stake with 4-year vest and 1-year cliff
- Market-rate salary deferred until Seed close
- One-time founding bonus paid at Seed close as partial cash catch-up
- Direct partnership with a 5x founder and former StockX Principal Data Scientist
- Full ownership of the engineering roadmap from day one
If you want ground-floor equity and the autonomy to build something real, we'd love to talk.
Responsibilities- Own the architecture and evolution of Pulltrader's core platform
- Ship product across the full stack, storefront, marketplace integrations, and AI features
- Build and maintain our AI pricing and card recognition pipeline (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, pgvector)
- Own infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost on GCP and Cloud Run
- Integrate and extend third-party APIs including eBay, USPS, Shopify, and Algolia
- Improve developer tooling, observability, and deployment practices
- Contribute to product decisions, not just implementation
- Help define the engineering hiring bar when the time comes
- Proven track record shipping and maintaining production software
- Experience with Python, Type Script, or both in a backend or full-stack context
- Comfort working across cloud infrastructure, GCP experience a strong plus
- Familiarity with AI/ML tooling and vector search is a meaningful advantage
- Startup experience only, engineers who make decisions, not just execute tickets
- Comfort with ambiguity and willingness to own outcomes, not just tasks
- Interest in the trading card or broader collectibles hobby is a strong plus
- Unlimited PTO
- home office stipend
- remote and hybrid options for most roles
- parental leave
Additional benefits expanding as we grow.
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