Collectors Universe, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer, Back-End (Payments)

Collectors Universe, Inc.
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3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$141k - $229k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain multi-gateway payment integrations, including Stripe and PayPal, with abstractions supporting gateway changes.
  • Own payment flows end-to-end from initiation through settlement, refunds, and reconciliation.
  • Develop backend payment services and APIs in C#/.NET.
  • Build customer-facing checkout and payment-management experiences using React, Svelte, and TypeScript.
  • Apply PCI-DSS practices, tokenization, idempotency, retries, audit controls, and resilient design patterns.
  • Design and operate distributed, event-driven services on AWS and Kubernetes.
  • Implement metrics, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and monitoring to support availability and incident response.
  • Partner with product, design, security, compliance, Payments, Marketplace, Grading, Vault, and platform teams.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools throughout planning, coding, review, debugging, and delivery.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of engineering experience designing, shipping, and scaling products with measurable business impact.
  • Ideally 2+ years operating as a Senior IC or equivalent technical leadership level at a high-growth company or scaled consumer platform.
  • Deep backend expertise in C# and .NET, including complex APIs, asynchronous patterns, and distributed-system data consistency.
  • Experience building responsive frontend experiences with React, Svelte, and TypeScript.
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design and efficient queries.
  • Experience with payment or fintech systems, gateway integrations, idempotency, webhooks, tokenization, and PCI compliance.
  • Experience designing and operating microservices and Kafka-based event-driven architectures on Kubernetes and AWS.
  • Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, including dashboards, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing.
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, analytical and troubleshooting skills, ownership, and ability to influence without direct authority.
  • Passion for collecting is a plus.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible full-time employees.
  • Fertility, commuter, and educational assistance benefits for eligible full-time employees.
  • 401(k) matching plan.
  • Flexible time off for salaried employees.
  • Ten company-paid holidays for regular full-time employees.
  • Employee discounts on select grading services.
  • Flexible hours and varying schedules on many teams.
  • Team celebrations, holiday events, and team-building activities.
  • Candidates within a one-hour commuting distance of the office may be expected to work onsite most of the time; remote and hybrid arrangements are indicated in the posting.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSC#DatadogKubernetes.NETPostgreSQLReactSvelteTypeScript
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1,001-5,000 employees
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