Principal Software Engineer - Backend

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Fully Remote - Within the United States About the team and the role:

TCGplayer connects hobbyists and hobby businesses to communities. We relentlessly improve the exchange of things and thoughts that fuel passions providing the most compelling destination and tools for collectible card game enthusiasts and professional sellers! TCGplayer now a part of eBay promotes and drives growth of our products and services by connecting a global community of millions of buyers with tens of thousands of retailers in a $25B global collectible hobby market.

The Seller Experience Group Online Selling Team is a dynamic team comprised of front-end back-end and testing automation engineers. We are dedicated to serving our online sellers by producing enterprise-grade products and features to run their business and connect with the hobbyist community. We are currently revamping our Order Management system to provide an accessible UI experience with extended capabilities and back-end scalability.

Our team prides itself on a culture that fosters camaraderie embraces diversity and exudes passion! We are one of New York State’s 50 best employers and Fortune.com’s top 100 companies for women in the U.S. What you will accomplish:

• Lead TCGplayer in the migration from a monolithic architecture to domain-driven microservice architecture.

• Architect a new multi-vertical aggregate seller platform to list products manage orders and payments across different marketplaces in a single spot.

• Participate in the Principal’s Guild to set technical direction design patterns and general best practice across the Technology organization

• Being a clear expert in multiple technical areas to support the team and organization

• Provide support for a mission-critical applications.

• Demonstrate a high level of initiative and attention to detail during daily operations

• Implement and maintain internal private and public web services

• Demonstrating ability to succeed in a wide range of complex situations across multiple axes e.g. scale uncertainty interconnectedness

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science information technology or a related field or a combination of education and experience

• 12 or more years of experience as a software engineer with distributed systems

• 5+ years of C# (ASP.Net/.Net Core)

• Significant experience in high volume production systems design with consideration for high availability disaster recovery performance fault tolerance and security

• Expert knowledge of RDBMS technologies (SQL Server PostgreSQL) and NoSQL stores (Redis MongoDB Elasticsearch)

• Expert knowledge of APM (Application Process Monitoring) particularly Scalyr/DataSet for logs and New Relic for dashboards & alerting

• Expert knowledge of event/stream processing mechanisms specifically Kafka but also with AWS SNS/SQS RabbitMQ or AzureBus

• Experience designing and developing microservices in an AWS cloud based architecture

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TCGplayer a subsidiary company of eBay is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity veteran status and disability or other legally protected status.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability please contact us at [email protected] .  We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible. View our accessibility info to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. For more information see: EEO is the Law Poster and EEO is the Law Poster Supplement .

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