We're a small team moving fast in a category we know well — and we're looking for people who want to own what they build.
Pulltrader gives collectors, high-volume sellers, and local card shops the tools to run modern businesses: storefronts, marketplace distribution, and AI-powered pricing intelligence. We have traction, a full-stack product, and a clear category to win. If you want ground-floor equity and the autonomy to shape something real, we'd love to talk.
We run a polyglot stack by design — the right runtime for each job, chosen deliberately. Every layer is intentional: built to scale a multi-channel marketplace without legacy debt.
React powers our seller-facing product, with Node/Express running the core API behind it — so our time goes to the hard, differentiated problems.
One product surface. Clear ownership boundaries.
Elixir/Phoenix sits beside Node as our orchestration layer, handling the durable, concurrent, real-time work a multi-channel marketplace lives on. The right runtime for the jobs Node shouldn't own.
The right runtime for durable, concurrent orchestration.
Scout, our AI layer, routes between frontier models to fit each task — reasoning, generation, and multimodal card recognition. Cursor keeps every engineer shipping at the pace of AI. We treat intelligence as core infrastructure, not a bolt-on.
AI is how we compete, not how we experiment.
Cloud Run hosts our services and Cloudflare handles the edge. Neon gives us serverless, branchable Postgres as our source of truth, with semantic search built into the same database.
No managed mystery boxes. We know exactly what runs and why.
Algolia delivers sub-100ms search across millions of cards — speed that matters when buyers are hunting a specific PSA 10. PostHog is our first-party analytics stack. Sentry catches regressions before users do. Linear keeps issues moving without process overhead.
We measure everything. We own the data. We move fast.
Founder & CEO
Ryan has spent 20+ years building product and scaling revenue at enterprise companies and VC-backed startups. He's a 5x founder with two exits — across social networks, marketplaces, and consumer goods. He's also a lifelong collector who's been playing Pokémon and Magic since before most trading card platforms existed, which means he understands this market from the inside out.
Principles that shape how we build, decide, and show up every day.
We build tools that strengthen the entire ecosystem of collectibles — from local card shops to passionate collectors. Every decision we make is measured by its impact on the hobby, not just the bottom line. Because at the heart of it all, we believe in one simple truth: collect what you love.
We believe collectors and shops deserve clear, fair, and honest systems. No hidden fees, no confusing processes, no corporate games. The hobby thrives when everyone knows where they stand.
Local card shops are the backbone of the hobby. We exist to help them modernize, compete, and grow without losing control of their customers or data.
Every feature, workflow, and product detail should solve a real problem. We don't build for hype. We build for usefulness, speed, and clarity.
No perfect fit listed? We still want to hear from you at careers@pulltrader.app.
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