This is a high-ownership role with high expectations. Total compensation is designed to scale significantly with company success, including meaningful equity, bonuses, and profit-sharing. As one of the earliest hires, this role is expected to grow into senior technical or executive leadership with the opportunity to build and lead the engineering organization.
About Us
MintCollect is a live trading card platform used by thousands of collectors worldwide and growing. We are building the infrastructure that helps collectors track, analyze, and understand their portfolios across multiple languages and markets.
Job Overview
We are hiring a Founding Software Engineer to help build and scale MintCollect alongside the founder. You will work across the stack to ship production features, make high-impact technical decisions, and shape the foundation of the engineering organization
Why Join Us
- Fully remote role with high ownership and autonomy
- Be an early engineer helping shape the technical foundation of the company
- Work directly with the founder on product and technical direction
- Clear path to increased responsibility and technical leadership as the team scales
Responsibilities
- Develop, ship, and maintain features in our iOS app (Swift/SwiftUI)
- Own and extend backend services (Python/Flask, AWS, Postgres)
- Identify and systematically reduce technical debt
- Develop RESTful APIs and integrate third-party APIs into applications.
- Take features end-to-end from idea to implementation to production
- Design and implement internal systems/processes
- Take ownership of feature design, testing, and debugging
- Contribute ideas to improve product and user experience
Qualifications/Experience
- SwiftUI and Python/Flask
- Database management systems (Postgres, SQL basics)
- AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, and RDS)
- Ability to implement third-party APIs
- Be able to work independently with minimal supervision. Taking ownership is critical
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience with payment processing APIs (Stripe, PayPal, etc)
- Knowledge of REST APIs (auth, webhooks, error handling)
- Familiarity with secure transaction flows
- Familiarity with Sports Cards and/or various trading card games such as Pokemon, Yugioh, Magic, OnePiece, etc
- Familiarity with Android and Web development
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract
Pay: $80,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year
Work Location: Remote
