Staff Software Engineer

🕒 September 4

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Collectors

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🛍️ eCommerce

Consulting • Marketing • eCommerce

Collectors is a company dedicated to helping collectors pursue their passion for collecting valuable and iconic items. They specialize in authenticating and grading collectibles, including rare baseball cards, coins, and memorabilia. Collectors offers industry-leading authentication and grading services, connecting a community of enthusiasts to help them grow their collections. Their products feature famous collectibles such as Mickey Mantle's 1952 Topps Baseball card, the 1913 Liberty Head nickel, and a Limited Edition Solid 20-karat Gold 20th Anniversary Pikachu. Collectors provides a platform for collectors to connect with others and build the future of collecting.

📋 Description

• Own the architecture of the team's domain end to end, including services, data flows, integrations, and failure modes • Design scalable products and services supporting iterative, autonomous development • Lead modernization work involving PHP monolith strangler patterns and Java-to-TypeScript service replacements • Build understanding of adjacent systems including grading, marketplace, CRM, payments, identity, and data/ETL • Set standards for security, testing, observability, and operational excellence • Lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering by establishing standards, guardrails, workflows, and impact measurement • Lead projects of moderate scope and complexity across one to two quarters • Coordinate engineers, stakeholders, and dependencies toward predictable delivery • Plan and prioritize using a value-versus-cost framework • Identify and communicate blockers and delays before they become surprises • Foster knowledge sharing and documentation with engineering and business stakeholders • Build relationships across the organization • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and feedback • Raise organizational AI fluency by sharing workflows, prompts, and agent configurations and coaching engineers

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including demonstrated technical leadership of multi-engineer, multi-quarter projects • Expert-level backend engineering in TypeScript/Node.js and/or Java • Effective across TypeScript, Java 21, PHP, Python, and C# • Hands-on production experience across React/Next.js frontends, API and service layers, relational data stores, and infrastructure • Proven experience modernizing legacy systems under live traffic • Deep PostgreSQL and MySQL expertise, including data modeling, migrations, and performance • Strong distributed-systems fundamentals: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SQS, idempotency, and failure handling • Production AWS expertise in ECS, Lambda, networking, and IAM • Infrastructure-as-code fluency with AWS CDK and/or Terraform • Experience raising engineering standards through testing, observability, documentation, and incident response • Daily fluency with AI coding assistants and agentic tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, or Cursor • Experience integrating AI tools into CI, code review, and documentation workflows • Mature judgment regarding verification, security, and limitations of AI-generated code • Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and business audiences • Experience with frontend architecture at scale or React Native/Expo is nice to have • Experience with e-commerce, marketplace, payments, or high-traffic consumer platforms is nice to have • Data platform or applied ML experience is nice to have • Experience building and responsibly deploying LLM-powered features or platforms is nice to have • Interest in sports cards, gaming, or collectibles is nice to have • Ability to work legally in the United States; employment eligibility validated through e-Verify

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Potential on-site interview for remote roles during final stages • Equal employment opportunity • Interview and application accommodations available