Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Collectors is the leading creator of innovative technology that provides value-added services for collectors worldwide. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Full-Stack to design and build scalable cloud-based systems, develop APIs and backend services, and improve existing systems to enhance performance and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable cloud-based systems on AWS that power core collectibles platforms and experiences
- Develop APIs and backend services that enable seamless web and mobile customer journeys across buying, selling, authentication, and grading
- Own technical architecture and delivery of end-to-end features, from design through deployment, with staff-level influence across teams
- Work on highly intricate grading and authentication workflows that ensure trust, accuracy, and consistency at scale
- Improve and evolve existing systems, identifying opportunities to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability
- Leverage modern AI tools and techniques to accelerate development, improve engineering velocity, and explore new ways of building
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship, raising engineering quality across teams
Skills
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building web applications, APIs, and distributed systems at scale
- Experience at product-driven, tech-forward companies building service-oriented or microservice-based systems
- 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience, including serverless and event-driven architectures
- Use modern AI tools (e.g. Claude Cowork, Codex) as a crucial part of your development workflow to accelerate delivery, improve engineering velocity, and explore new approaches to building that drive team-wide productivity and innovation
- Strong fundamentals in engineering (OOP, design patterns, testing, security, observability), with deep proficiency in at least one object-oriented language and ability and willingness to work across languages such as Python, C#, or Java
- Familiarity with modern client-side frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js) and delivering consumer-facing digital experiences
- Proven experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional product teams embedded with Product, Design, TPM, and Business partners, shaping requirements, tradeoffs, and execution end-to-end
Benefits
- Bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation, please ask your recruiter for details
Company Overview
Collectors offers authentication and sale services for high-value collectibles. It was founded in 1986, and is headquartered in Santa Ana, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.collectors.com/.