Founding Product Engineer

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 agoEarly engagement metrics are outperforming marketplace benchmarks by 4-5xWe closed a $3M seed round last month and are venture-backedWe're a two-founder team based in NYCOur technical CEO spent five years as a Senior Engineer at Etsy and built the first version of TRACE herselfWe recently graduated from Harvard Business SchoolNow we're building the next version.The roleYou'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 upCore product experiences across web and mobileAI-native workflows that remove friction from buying and sellingReal-time systems that connect buyers and sellersThe foundation for increasingly autonomous buying and selling experiencesYou'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 ifYou've built and shipped products people actually useYou move quickly and enjoy figuring things out from first principlesAI tools are part of how you workYou care about product as much as codeYou want ownership, not ticketsYou've built mobile apps before or are excited toLogisticsNYC preferred.If you're exceptional and remote, we'll make it work.Competitive salary + meaningful equity.