Lead Backend Engineer

About VeriswapVeriswap is a barter marketplace for trading cards, operating within the $10B+ sports card secondary market. We're focused on creating a new swap economy because we firmly believe that the swaps market is 5x larger than the cash sales market for collectibles. Our mission is empower collectors by enabling them to trade sports cards anytime, anywhere.Our founding team comes from Columbia (ex-IB) and from Brown (ex-Google). Together, we're building something truly exciting, and we're looking for driven individuals to help us shape the future of collectibles.Why Veriswap?$120m+ in transactions completed in 3 yearsHave done transactions as large as $300k on our platform 3x growth in 2024$10b+ market size. We believe that enabling a new mode of commerce (trading) will 5x that market size100,000 users and growing with bootstrapped profitabilityFounded in 2021On web, android, iOSTeam size: 18 (8 engineers/product, 10 ops)Headquarters: Palo Alto, CARequirementsResponsibilitiesWrite clean code in Typescript using NextJS as the frameworkArchitect database schemas for PostgreSQL database to efficiently store large amounts of dataBe involved in conversations surrounding product and strategyA solid understanding of security, scalability, and efficiency for backend infrastructureUnderstanding of REST API'sHands-on experience with GitHub (pull requests, branches, commits...)Must Haves:Experience working on B2C appsExperience working on similar company types as Veriswap (Scale up phase, not 0->1)Leadership experience, leading a team of 3+ engineersBackend experience using NestJS: 4 years+PostgreSQL: 4 years+Typescript: 3 years+Google Cloud Run, Google Cloud SQL, GCP: 2 years+Direct work experience with Product Managers/UX Designers