# Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

## About the Role

Collectors is seeking Full-Stack Staff Software Engineers to help shape the future of the collectibles industry through scalable platforms, sophisticated grading and authentication architecture, and engaging customer experiences. This is a backend-leaning role focused on building robust services, improving scalability and performance, and delivering innovative features and tooling across a connected global ecosystem.

You will contribute to the digital transformation of how collectors buy, sell, authenticate, grade, and engage with collectibles. The role offers staff-level technical influence across teams, with opportunities to lead architecture and end-to-end feature delivery while partnering closely with Product, Design, TPM, and Business teams.

## Key Responsibilities

* Design and build scalable, cloud-based systems on AWS supporting core collectibles platforms and customer experiences.

* Develop APIs and backend services that enable web and mobile customer journeys across buying, selling, authentication, and grading.

* Own technical architecture and end-to-end delivery of features from design through deployment.

* Provide staff-level technical influence across engineering teams.

* Build and improve complex grading and authentication workflows that support trust, accuracy, and consistency at scale.

* Improve existing systems by identifying opportunities to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability.

* Use modern AI tools and techniques to accelerate software development, improve engineering velocity, and explore new development approaches.

* Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship.

* Help raise engineering quality and productivity across teams.

## Required Qualifications

* 7+ years of software engineering experience building web applications, APIs, and distributed systems at scale.

* Experience working at product-driven, technology-focused companies building service-oriented or microservice-based systems.

* 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience, including serverless and event-driven architectures.

* Experience using modern AI development tools, such as Claude Cowork or Codex, as a significant part of the software development workflow.

* Strong software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, testing, security, and observability.

* Deep proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language.

* Ability and willingness to work across programming languages such as Python, C#, or Java.

* Experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional product teams with Product, Design, TPM, and Business partners.

* Experience contributing to requirements, technical tradeoffs, and end-to-end execution.

## Preferred Qualifications

* Familiarity with modern client-side frameworks such as React and Next.js.

* Experience delivering consumer-facing digital experiences.

* Experience working with complex, highly scalable platforms and distributed systems.

## Skills & Competencies

* Full-stack software engineering

* Backend development

* API development

* Distributed systems

* AWS cloud development

* Serverless architecture

* Event-driven architecture

* Microservices and service-oriented architecture

* Object-oriented programming

* Software architecture and design

* Testing and software quality

* Security and observability

* Scalability, performance, and reliability

* AI-assisted software development

* Technical leadership

* Code and design reviews

* Mentoring

* Cross-functional collaboration

* Product development and execution

* Consumer-facing digital experiences

* Problem-solving and technical decision-making

## Education & Experience

**Education:**

No specific education or degree requirement is stated in the original job description.

**Experience:**

* 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 with product-driven, technology-focused organizations and service-oriented or microservice-based systems.

* Experience working with cross-functional Product, Design, TPM, and Business teams.

## Work Arrangement & Schedule

* **Work arrangement:** Onsite expectations may apply.

* Candidates located within a 1-hour commuting distance of the office may be expected to work onsite most of the time.

* Additional onsite expectations will be discussed during the recruiting process.

* Remote roles may require an onsite interview during the final stages of the hiring process, at the company's discretion.

* Candidates are requested to have their cameras on during video interviews.

* Certain interview steps may take place by phone.

* The original job description does not specify whether the position is full-time or part-time.

## Compensation & Benefits

* **Salary range:** $165,848 - $269,259.

* Actual compensation varies based on nondiscriminatory factors including location, job level, experience, and skill set.

* The role may be eligible for bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation. Candidates should ask their recruiter for details.

* No additional benefits are specified in the original job description.

## Compliance / Additional Information

* Collectors uses **E-Verify** to validate an individual's legal ability to work in the United States.

* Collectors is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other protected class under applicable law.

* Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates who require assistance during the application or interview process due to a disability or special need.

* Candidates should contact **[people@collectors.com](mailto:people@collectors.com)** regarding accommodation requests or suspected fraudulent job offers.

* Collectors states that it does not request personal financial information or payments for business-related equipment as part of the hiring process.

* U.S. applicants can refer to Collectors' Privacy Notice for U.S. Applicants for information regarding personal data collected during employment applications and recruitment.

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