Staff Software Engineer, Full-Stack
Collectors Universe, Inc.4 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$166k - $269k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable cloud-based systems on AWS for collectibles platforms and customer experiences.
- Develop APIs and backend services supporting web and mobile journeys for buying, selling, authentication, and grading.
- Own technical architecture and end-to-end feature delivery from design through deployment.
- Improve system performance, scalability, and reliability across existing platforms.
- Build and evolve complex grading and authentication workflows.
- Use modern AI tools and techniques to accelerate development and engineering velocity.
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and cross-team quality improvements.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, TPM, and Business partners on requirements, tradeoffs, and execution.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building web applications, APIs, and distributed systems at scale.
- 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience, including serverless and event-driven architectures.
- Experience at product-driven technology companies building service-oriented or microservice-based systems.
- Use of modern AI tools such as Claude Cowork and Codex as part of the development workflow.
- Deep proficiency in at least one object-oriented language and ability to work across languages such as Python, C#, or Java.
- Familiarity with modern client-side frameworks such as React and Next.js and experience delivering consumer-facing digital experiences.
- Strong engineering fundamentals in object-oriented programming, design patterns, testing, security, and observability.
- Experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional product teams.
Benefits
- The salary range is $165,848-$269,259, with potential eligibility for bonuses, commissions, or other compensation.
- Candidates within a one-hour commute of the office may be expected to work onsite most of the time.
- Remote-role candidates may be asked to participate in an onsite interview during the final stages.
- The company supports reasonable accommodations for interview or application needs.
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.