Senior Software Engineer Full-Stack (Power Packs)

Collectors is the leading creator of innovative technology that provides value-added services for collectors worldwide. We grade authenticate vault and sell millions of record-setting collectibles all while modernizing and digitalizing the process to further our mission of helping collectors pursue their passions. We’re always on the lookout for talented people to join our growing team.

Our services span collectible trading cards autographs comic books coins video games event tickets and memorabilia. Our subsidiaries include PSA PCGS Beckett SGC and Card Ladder.

Since our founding in 1986 we have graded and authenticated millions of items. We employ more than 3000 people across our headquarters in Santa Ana California and offices in New Jersey Texas Florida Japan Shanghai Hong Kong Canada Mexico Germany and France.

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The Power Packs engineering team is responsible for building and operating the customer-facing Power Packs experience the backend services and internal tools that power pack configuration and purchases and the integrations with adjacent collection systems that support the full pack lifecycle.

We are looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer who can help build and evolve the systems that power flexible scalable marketplace experiences across our platform. This role is especially well-suited for an engineer who is strongest on the backend but also comfortable owning meaningful frontend work to deliver polished end-to-end product experiences. Your work will directly shape how we build APIs and services connect them to modern web applications and support new product capabilities such as white-label experiences and new collectible categories.

We believe there is significant value in onsite partnership and team collaboration and candidates within 1-hour commuting distance of the office may be expected to work onsite most of the time. Additional details will be discussed during the recruiting process.

What You’ll Do

• Participate across the entire software development lifecycle taking features from concept to production release

• Build backend services APIs and data models that support customer-facing product experiences and internal operational workflows

• Contribute to frontend application development using Javascript Typescript React and NextJS to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences

• Collaborate with Product Engineering and partner teams to translate business requirements into clean technical designs across both backend and frontend systems

• Troubleshoot data integration service and UI issues across a large distributed codebase

• Contribute to technical documentation to improve maintainability knowledge sharing and team velocity

• Help raise the bar on system design code quality observability and engineering best practices across the team

• Leverage AI tooling with a preference for Claude to accelerate software design architecture and implementation while maintaining strong engineering judgment and code quality

Salary Range: 

The salary range for this position is $140971-$228870 Actual compensation on this range varies based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors including location job level experience and skill set. This role may be eligible for bonuses commissions or other forms of compensation please ask your recruiter for details.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production applications with substantial experience in backend systems and meaningful experience delivering frontend product work

• 3+ years experience / strong proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot framework

• Strong fundamentals working with databases and data modeling both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB)

• Experience designing and building APIs and service integrations that support scalable product development

• 3+ years experience with modern frontend development using Javascript Typescript React and NextJS

• Experience with containerization and orchestration infrastructure (e.g. Docker Kubernetes ECS)

• Experience collaborating with Engineering and Product teams to turn complex business requirements into clean extensible systems and user experiences

• Possess strong technical analytical troubleshooting and communication skills with the ability to visualize and document processes

• Proficient at using appropriate security documentation testing and monitoring best practices

• Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies

• Comfortable using AI tooling preferably Claude to support solution design system architecture and software implementation in day-to-day engineering work

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting white-label or multi-tenant product architectures

• Experience with distributed messaging systems such as Apache Kafka

• Experience with Python as well as test frameworks such as pytest or unittest

• Experience building applications in the cloud with AWS and familiarity with serverless infrastructure such as AWS Lambda

• Experience contributing to shared design systems

• Experience with Svelte and SvelteKit

• Experience with streaming services such as Twitch

• Experience working across both customer-facing applications and internal tools

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What We Do

Collectors has multiple business lines that grade authenticate and sell millions of high-value record-setting collectibles. We're the leader in third-party authentication and grading services for high-value collectibles including trading cards (Professional Sports Authenticator and Card Ladder) coins (Professional Coin Grading Services) video games (Wata) event tickets autographs and memorabilia and with your help we can continue to grow rapidly. Our goal is to make the joy of collecting accessible to everyone - collectors looking to complete their set inventors looking to maximize the value of their collection and anyone who’s looking to preserve a game card or coin that reminds them of fond memories in their lives. We’re entering an exciting new stage of growth as a result of our acquisition in 2021 led by entrepreneur and sports card collector Nat Turner D1 Capital Partners L.P. and Cohen Private Ventures in addition to renowned athletes and collectors. We’re investing in scalable modern infrastructure to support the maturation of the industry increasing value of collectibles and demand for our services. Help us build a tech-enabled business for collectors. Our services span collectible coins trading cards video games event tickets autographs and memorabilia through our subsidiaries which include Professional Sports Authenticators (PSA) Professional Coin Grading Services (PCGS) Wata Certified Coin Exchange (CCE) Collectors Corner Set Registry Collectors.com and the Long Beach Expo collectibles trade show. Since our founding in 1986 we have graded and authenticated more than 80 million items. We employ over 1000 people across our Santa Ana CA headquarters New Jersey Seattle Hong Kong Paris Shanghai and Tokyo.

Why Work With Us

Collectors has long been the global leader in third-party authentication grading and valuation services for collectibles. This gives us the chance to disrupt the industry by applying technological advances to our services. We strive to be the most innovative organization in collectibles building an ecosystem that celebrates the joy of collecting

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