Built for - A senior engineer for marketplaces
A marketplace is two products glued together: a buyer side and a seller side that both have to work, plus the payments, payouts, and trust layer in the middle. We build the parts that are actually hard. Stripe Connect splits, search that matches supply to demand, and the dispute flows nobody wants to touch.
- Payment splits and payouts are a minefield. Escrow, holds, commission take-rates, refunds, and Connect onboarding all have to be exactly right, or you're losing money or breaking the law.
- Two-sided onboarding doubles the surface area. Every feature ships twice, once for buyers and once for sellers, so you're always behind on one side.
- Search and matching quietly decide whether the marketplace works. Bad ranking means buyers don't convert and sellers churn, but tuning relevance and filters keeps getting punted.
- Trust and safety never ends. Fake listings, fraud, chargebacks, review gaming, and disputes between two strangers you now have to mediate in code.
What we build for Marketplaces
- Stripe Connect setup with split payments, marketplace commission and take-rate logic, escrow-style holds until delivery, and seller payout schedules.
- Seller dashboards with listing management, order pipeline, earnings, and payout history, plus the matching buyer-side checkout and order tracking.
- Search and filtering that ranks listings by relevance, distance, price, and availability, with facets that don't fall over at scale.
- A dispute and refund flow. Buyer opens a case, uploads evidence, seller responds, admin resolves, and Stripe handles the matching refund or release.
- Two-party messaging with read receipts and abuse and spam controls, plus notification emails so deals don't go cold.
- Trust and safety tooling. A listing moderation queue, fraud flags, verified-seller badges, and a review system that resists fake ratings.
Why a subscription fits Marketplaces
A marketplace is never finished. You ship every feature twice, and the payments and trust work keeps moving as you grow. When a payout bug or a fraud spike jumps the queue, a flat monthly subscription lets you reprioritize that same day, with no scope renegotiation and no change order. Founder-led, so the person who built the Connect flow is the one fixing it.
Frequently asked questions
- Do you work with Stripe Connect and marketplace payments?
- Yes. Split payments, commission and take-rate logic, escrow-style holds, refunds, and seller payout onboarding are core to what we build. Stripe and PostgreSQL are in the default stack, so this is home turf, not a learning curve on your dime.
- Can you build both the buyer and seller sides?
- Yes, both. We work one task at a time in your priority order, so you decide whether the seller dashboard or the buyer checkout ships first. Reprioritize whenever the balance of supply and demand shifts.
- Can you help with search, ranking, and matching buyers to sellers?
- Yes. We build search with filters and facets, tune relevance ranking, and handle the matching logic that connects the right listings to the right buyers. Send the goal and a few example queries, and we'll iterate with unlimited revisions until it converts.
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