Staff Software Engineer, Beckett
Collectors Universe, Inc.2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end architecture for services, data flows, integrations, failure modes, and frontends across Beckett’s portfolio.
- Design scalable service boundaries, contracts, data ownership models, migration paths, and systems that support autonomous development.
- Lead high-stakes modernization work, including strangler-pattern migrations, Java-to-TypeScript replacements, and low-risk production cutovers.
- Build cross-system understanding across grading, marketplace, CRM, payments, identity, and data/ETL systems to identify risks early.
- Set standards for security, testing, observability, documentation, incident response, and operational excellence.
- Lead projects of moderate-to-significant scope across one-to-two-quarter delivery horizons and coordinate engineers, stakeholders, and dependencies.
- Use value-versus-cost prioritization, communicate blockers early, and drive predictable delivery.
- Establish standards and guardrails for AI coding tools, agents, code review, testing, security, intellectual-property hygiene, and impact measurement.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and feedback.
- Promote knowledge sharing, documentation, AI fluency, and effective engineering workflows across the organization.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership of multi-engineer, multi-quarter projects.
- Expert-level backend engineering in TypeScript/Node.js and/or Java, with effectiveness across TypeScript, Java 21, PHP, Python, and C# systems.
- Hands-on production experience across modern React/Next.js frontends, API and service layers, relational data stores, and infrastructure.
- Experience modernizing legacy systems through strangler-fig migrations, monolith service extraction, or platform re-architecture under live traffic.
- Deep PostgreSQL and MySQL expertise covering data modeling, migrations, performance, and shared-database coupling.
- Strong distributed-systems fundamentals including service boundaries, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SQS, idempotency, and failure handling.
- Production AWS experience with ECS, Lambda, networking, and IAM, plus infrastructure-as-code experience with AWS CDK and/or Terraform.
- A record of improving testing strategy, observability, documentation, and incident response.
- Hands-on daily experience with AI coding assistants and agentic tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, and Cursor, including workflow integration and verification judgment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and business audiences.
- Preferred experience with frontend architecture at scale, design systems, micro-frontends, performance budgets, React Native/Expo, e-commerce, marketplaces, payments, consumer platforms, Snowflake, ETL pipelines, dimensional modeling, computer vision, LLM APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, or agent frameworks such as MCP.
- Interest in sports cards, gaming, or collectibles is preferred.
Benefits
- The posting does not specify benefits, compensation, or a regular work arrangement.
Tech Stack
AWSC#GraphQLgRPCJavaMySQLNestJSNext.jsPHPPostgreSQLPythonReactReact NativeSnowflakeSpring BootTerraformTypeScript
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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.