Software Engineer: Core Marketplace & Exchange (Frontend)

Tradepost•Chicago, IL

1d•$135,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Tradepost is building the liquidity infrastructure for the real world, aiming to make everything instantly tradeable. Unlike traditional assets like stocks and crypto, physical assets like collectibles, watches, and sports cars currently take significant time to sell, ship, and settle. Tradepost is addressing this gap by enabling faster transactions for these asset classes. The company is backed by prominent investors including Andreessen Horowitz and executives from major financial institutions and tech companies. Tradepost is a small, dedicated team focused on modernizing an industry that has seen little change since the dot-com era. They are seeking an engineer to contribute to the growth of their Core Marketplace & Exchange business, with the goal of reaching $100M/month in volume. The role offers the opportunity to significantly impact a rapidly growing product and shape the future of trading and investing in Cultural Assets.

Requirements

Speed: You move fast once you know exactly what it is you want.
Extreme Agency: You know what works and you’re not afraid to speak up when you think you’re right.
You're a Hustler: You are always finding a new angle to make money, not just doing what's in front of you.
You Bet on Yourself: You've taken real risk on something you believed in and built something, walked away from something safe, or backed something nobody else would.
You Have Great Business Sense: You can understand the “what” and “how” to build something, as well as the “why” and why it’s important for our mission.
You’ve worked on something with high stakes: You’ve worked on production systems that require you to be extremely diligent and thoughtful but aren’t afraid to move fast anyway.

Responsibilities

Own Core Product & Exchange UI/UX: Take ownership of products and features across our core Marketplace and Exchange as we continue to ship, scale, and maintain the products already driving real volume.
Live Trading: Build the real-time mobile trading interface that powers the first instantly settled spot markets in cultural assets.
Marketplace: Build the core buying and selling flows including order, bid, and ask creation, discovery, deposits, social, and more.
Terminal: Build the most advanced professional trading tool in all of Cultural Assets used by market-makers and businesses to manage inventory and liquidity at scale.
Growth: Optimize our current revenue-generating flows and continuously improve conversion and trust with our users.
Launch New Products: Help build and launch net-new businesses, never-before-tried products, and lines of business that will change the future of Cultural Assets forever.
Understand Our Users: Think like our users and put yourself in their shoes, drawing from the team's experience in reselling and trading the asset classes served.
Make Magic: Work harder and smarter than the competition, doing a lot with a little.