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You'll own a meaningful part of the platform, taking problems from product definition and technical design through production and polished UI.\nThe challenges span software and real-world outcomes: resolving hundreds of bids in the closing seconds of an auction, getting sellers paid accurately and quickly, turning a physical collectible into a live digital asset, or finding and fixing the step where a new customer drops out.\nWe are looking for engineers who think like a product owner and build like an engineer. You'll help decide what to build, understand the business outcome behind it, and own whether it works.\nWhat You'll Own\nProducts and systems, end to end. Take features from an ambiguous customer problem through architecture, implementation, and launch. Own the backend logic and the customer-facing experience it supports, from seller tools and discovery to account activity and submission flows.\n\nThe engineering behind the experience. 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Raise the bar through thoughtful code reviews, technical documentation, and sharing what you learn.\n\nHow You'll Use AI Here\nWe don't want to hear that you use Claude every day. Everyone does. We want to know what you've built with it. Concretely, in this role:\nBuild practical AI-powered product features, such as instant valuations, personalized discovery, listing enrichment, or automated quality checks. Take models from prototype to a customer or operational workflow that solves a real problem.\n\nStand up agents that monitor systems, triage exceptions, and surface actionable findings. Turn telemetry, operational queues, or funnel data into a ranked set of problems with proposed causes and next steps.\n\nUse models to build simulators and generate adversarial test cases. Exercise traffic spikes, unpredictable partner behavior, and edge cases before customers encounter them.\n\nPut MCP servers over product data and event history so questions about an item, transaction, or customer journey can be investigated in plain language.\n\nUse Claude Code or Cursor as the default way you build, refactor, migrate, and test, not as autocomplete. Apply engineering judgment to the output and own the quality of what ships.\n\nIf you've built agents, wired up connectors, written skills or MCP servers, or shipped internal tooling your team actually depends on, lead with that. Name the artifact, not the tool.\nWhat You Bring\nFull-stack engineering ability. Experience building and scaling applications with strong backend fundamentals in Python, Postgres, and AWS or comparable infrastructure, alongside frontend experience with React, React Native, and TypeScript.\n\nExperience taking on hard problems. 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