Misprint, Inc. · 1 day ago
Lead ML & Data Engineer (Founding Engineer) — Own Pricing + Market Data at Misprint
Misprint, Inc. is a peer-to-peer marketplace for graded and sealed Pokémon cards, backed by Y Combinator and based in NYC. They are seeking a Lead ML & Data Engineer to own their market data and pricing systems, focusing on the ingestion, normalization, storage, and logic/models that ensure reliable pricing and product experiences.
CollectiblesMarketplaceRetail
Responsibilities
Own market data pipelines (scrapers/APIs/ETL) and make them reliable, monitored, and well-documented
Improve pricing + liquidity logic (cleaning, normalization, deduping, outlier handling, stale-data handling)
Build systems for data quality + observability (alerts, retries, backfills, audits, freshness metrics)
Own core datasets/mappings that power product (catalog enrichment, ID mappings, pricing tables)
Build and maintain backend surfaces that serve data to the product (APIs, queries, internal tooling)
Partner with product/engineering to ship data-powered features (market stats, trend signals, portfolio analytics, search relevance)
Qualification
Required
3+ years experience in data engineering / ML engineering / backend data systems
Owned production pipelines end-to-end: ingestion → transforms → storage → serving
Strong at Python + SQL, and comfortable with Postgres in production
Know how to handle real-world data messiness: duplicates, schema drift, missingness, outliers, backfills
Can operate independently, communicate clearly, and document systems as you go
Prefer pragmatic systems that stay reliable over time
Preferred
Scraping/automation experience
Marketplaces/fintech data
Search/relevance
Time-series/anomaly detection
Interest in Pokémon/collectibles
Any experience with Pokémon/TCG/collectibles!
Company
Misprint, Inc.
Misprint is the first real-time, transparent marketplace built for trading card collectors and investors.
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$0.5MKey Investors
Y Combinator
2025-03-12Pre Seed· $0.5M
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