Principal Software Engineer, PSA CX
Collectors Universe, Inc.2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and develop new cloud-based software architectures.
- Own complete features from design and architecture through implementation, testing, deployment, and production release.
- Review technical designs, proposals, code, existing applications, and databases to identify improvements.
- Design and contribute to APIs supporting web and mobile user experiences.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to create clean, extensible solutions.
- Troubleshoot software issues and debug a large codebase.
- Develop and execute unit and integration tests.
- Contribute to technical documentation and maintainability of software assets.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering industry experience building backend software.
- Exposure to microservices, event-driven architectures, and batch processing.
- Strong proficiency in Python.
- Strong database and data-modeling fundamentals across relational databases such as PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB.
- 5+ years of experience building solutions with AWS technologies including Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and API Gateway.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration infrastructure such as Docker, Kubernetes, and ECS.
- Experience with infrastructure as code such as CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
- Experience translating complex business requirements into clean and extensible APIs with engineering and product teams.
- Strong technical, analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills, including the ability to visualize and document processes.
- Familiarity with security, documentation, monitoring, and Agile/Scrum best practices.
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About Collectors Universe, Inc.
Collectors Universe (Collectors) provides authentication, grading, vaulting, and marketplace services for collectibles such as trading cards, coins, video games, tickets, autographs, comics, and memorabilia. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Santa Ana, California, the privately held company operates PSA and PCGS, plus PSA Vault and the Card Ladder analytics platform, and integrates with marketplaces like eBay. It earns fees for grading, storage, consignment, and data services, and has certified millions of items.