rarecandy - Web Engineer

• Build and improve responsive web experiences across Rare Candy’s collector-facing product. • Develop maintainable interfaces using React, TypeScript, and modern web tooling. • Integrate with GraphQL APIs and collaborate with backend engineers on data requirements and API contracts. • Own features from technical planning through implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-up improvements. • Build reusable components and consistent interaction patterns that help the team ship faster. • Make experiences work well across devices and browsers, with attention to accessibility, loading states, error handling, and performance. • Investigate production bugs and address the underlying causes. • Work closely with product and design to balance user needs, technical constraints, and delivery timelines. • Contribute thoughtful code reviews and communicate clearly about progress, tradeoffs, and blockers. • A DAY IN YOUR LIFE AT RARE CANDY • You start the morning reviewing feedback on a recently shipped feature and checking how it’s performing for collectors. • Mid-morning, you’re working with design and a backend engineer to scope a new collection browsing experience, thinking through the API, filtering behavior, and mobile layout. • After lunch, you’re building the interface, connecting it to live data, and handling loading, empty, and error states. You catch a slow interaction and track it down before opening your PR. • Later in the day, you’re in a product discussion about an upcoming drop, bringing both your web engineering perspective and your own TCG fluency to the conversation. • You close the day by reviewing a teammate’s code and sharing your own PR with a clear summary, screenshots, and testing notes. • YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF • You have around 3–5 years of web engineering experience and have shipped meaningful features in production. • You’re comfortable building with React and TypeScript and have strong fundamentals in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. • You can take a feature from a product brief or design through implementation and release without needing every step spelled out. • You’ve worked with GraphQL or REST APIs and understand data fetching, caching, and client-side state management. • You know how to build responsive, accessible interfaces and care about the details that make a web experience feel good. • You can reason through component design, rendering behavior, and performance tradeoffs without overcomplicating the solution. • You write useful tests and know how to debug issues across the browser, network requests, and API responses. • You communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and work well with designers, product partners, and other engineers. • You’re comfortable in a fast-moving startup where priorities can shift and you’re expected to help find the path forward. • You know the trading-card or collector world. You collect, play, rip packs, follow the market, or have real fluency in a similar collectible space.