Staff Software Engineer – Grading Operations

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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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 complex, loosely defined projects from initial design through production • Lead projects spanning multiple engineering teams • Build backend services, APIs, and data models for internal grading and authentication applications • Work across containerized .NET applications, serverless APIs, and Python background-processing jobs • Select appropriate architectures for new work • Design and implement reliable event-driven and asynchronous systems for high-volume operational data • Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and problem-solving practices • Contribute to frontend development using JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js • Collaborate with Product, Tech, and Operations teams to translate business requirements into technical designs • Troubleshoot data, integration, service, and UI issues across a large codebase • Participate in an on-call rotation supporting owned services • Write design documents and technical decision records

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building production applications • Deep experience in backend systems and some hands-on experience delivering frontend work • 5+ years of experience / strong proficiency in C# and .NET • Routine use of AI tooling in software design and development, with judgment to review and take responsibility for its output • Track record of delivering projects with unclear requirements and non-obvious designs • History of mentoring strong engineers and improving team design and development practices • Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and service integrations • Sound judgment about module boundaries, service decomposition, and architectural decisions • Experience writing and maintaining automated tests for production services • Strong fundamentals with relational databases and data modeling, including SQL Server or PostgreSQL • Hands-on experience building and operating production cloud services • Experience with container orchestration such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS • Experience with serverless compute behind an API gateway • Experience with managed messaging and data stores • Comfortable working in a modern frontend codebase with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and a component-based framework • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and monitoring/observability tools such as CloudWatch or Datadog • Experience translating complex Product and Operations requirements into clean, extensible systems • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies • Experience with asynchronous, event-driven, and distributed systems, including systems operating across regions (nice to have) • Experience with AWS, Python, Apache Kafka, DynamoDB, or Vue.js (nice to have) • Experience partnering closely with Product and working directly with operations and business teams (nice to have) • Experience optimizing high-volume workflows (nice to have) • Ability to work legally in the United States, validated through e-Verify

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • On-site interview may be requested during final stages for remote roles • Equal employment opportunity • Reasonable accommodations for application and interview • Camera-on video interviews to foster meaningful conversation