Senior Software Engineer I

At GOAT Group the alias team builds the platform that powers how sellers list, price, and fulfill products on GOAT. We own the full seller experience: onboarding, inventory management, payments, and pricing tools. Our services handle billions of listings across sneakers, apparel, and collectibles, processing real-time pricing events, marketplace integrations, and fulfillment workflows at scale.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and operate Go microservices that power seller listings, pricing, payments, and fulfillment across a distributed, event-driven architecture
• Own features end-to-end: from technical design to deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Debug and resolve production issues across asynchronous, multi-service workflows using distributed tracing and observability tooling
• Work across team boundaries: our projects regularly span catalog, consumer, pricing, and fulfillment pods. You must have clear communication and coordination abilities.
• Contribute to technical design decisions, code reviews, and architecture documentation that shapes how the seller platform evolves

We are looking for:

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Go and/or Ruby on Rails
• Experience building and operating event-driven systems (SQS, Kafka, or similar). You understand retry strategies, dead-letter queues, and eventual consistency tradeoffs.
• Proficiency with gRPC / Protocol Buffers for service-to-service communication
• Hands-on experience with DynamoDB or similar NoSQL databases (single-table design, GSI patterns, batch operations)
• Strong relational database experience (PostgreSQL)
• Fluency with observability platforms (Honeycomb, Datadog, or similar) for debugging distributed, asynchronous services in production
• E-commerce or marketplace platform experience
• Bias towards action: you pick up ambiguous problems and drive them forward without waiting for direction
• Curiosity: learning new tech is invigorating. You stay up to date with the latest because it's fascinating. You may casually read source code from open source or other groups in your company.

Nice to have:

• Pricing, fintech, or trading systems experience — backtesting, algorithmic pricing, price constraints
• Search infrastructure experience (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Algolia)
• Experience consuming ML model outputs in production services
• Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)

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)

$147,200 - $184,000 USD

Tier 2 - (Includes mid-cost markets across the U.S.)

$132,800 - $166,000 USD

Tier 3 - (All other U.S. locations)

$125,200 - $156,500 USD

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:

$125,200—$184,000 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. Through its unique positioning between the primary and resale markets, the company offers styles across various time periods on its digital platforms and in its retail locations, while delivering products to over 60 million members across 170 countries.

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 including inventory exclusive to the platform, 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.

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