What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Product Engineer position at TRACE?
About TRACE
🤖 We're building agentic recommerce.
Today, buying something means taking all of the risk.
You spend money, hope you'll still want it later, and if you decide to sell it, you're stuck doing the work yourself.
We think ownership should be liquid.
We're building a future where intelligent systems coordinate demand, supply, pricing, and transactions automatically, giving every purchase a clear path to resale and eventually a guaranteed exit.
TRACE is the first step toward that future.
Today, users can list what they plan to sell before they buy it. Buyers bid, demand forms instantly, and purchases can start paying for themselves before checkout.
Why join now?
Momentum is building quickly.
- We launched 2 months ago
- Early engagement metrics are outperforming marketplace benchmarks by 4-5x
- We closed a $3M seed round last month and are venture-backed
- We're a two-founder team based in NYC
- Our technical CEO spent five years as a Senior Engineer at Etsy and built the first version of TRACE herself
- We recently graduated from Harvard Business School
Now we're building the next version.
The role
You'll be our first engineering hire.
You'll work directly with the founders and designer to build the next version of TRACE.
This isn't joining an existing engineering organization. It's helping create one.
You'll help shape the product, architecture, engineering culture, and future team from day one.
Mobile is a huge part of what's next.
📱 You'll help build:
- Our mobile experience from the ground up
- Core product experiences across web and mobile
- AI-native workflows that remove friction from buying and selling
- Real-time systems that connect buyers and sellers
- The foundation for increasingly autonomous buying and selling experiences
You'll make product decisions, talk to users, ship constantly, and have enormous influence over what TRACE becomes.
We're looking for someone who loves building, moves quickly, and wants ownership.
You're probably a fit if
- You've built and shipped products people actually use
- You move quickly and enjoy figuring things out from first principles
- AI tools are part of how you work
- You care about product as much as code
- You want ownership, not tickets
- You've built mobile apps before or are excited to
Logistics
NYC preferred.
If you're exceptional and remote, we'll make it work.
Competitive salary meaningful equity.
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