Staff Backend Engineer: Cloud & Microservices

Collectors; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Collectors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help design and build a scalable back-end powering PSA Set Registry, a flagship experience for collectors to organize and celebrate their PSA-graded collections.

You will own features end-to-end, from design to deployment, and collaborate with product and design teams to deliver high-volume, consumer-facing software using AWS, microservices, and modern cloud architectures.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering industry experience building backend software, with exposure to microservices, event-driven architectures, and batch processing.
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Strong fundamentals working with databases and data modeling, both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL) & NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB)
• 5+ years of experience building solutions using AWS technologies such as: Lambda, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, API Gateway
• Experience with containerization and orchestration infrastructure (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience with IaC such as CDK/CloudFormation or TerraForm
• Experience collaborating with Engineering and Product teams to turn complex business requirements into clean and extensible APIs
• Possess strong technical, analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills with the ability to visualize and document processes
• Proficient at using appropriate security, documentation, and/or monitoring best practices
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of new cloud-based software architectures
• Own and deliver complete features, including design, architecture, implementation, testability and deployment
• Provide feedback pertaining to technical designs, proposals and code
• Analyze existing applications / databases and identify areas for improvement
• Design and contribute to APIs that can support user experiences on web and mobile applications
• Participate across the entire software development lifecycle, taking features from concept to production release
• Collaboratively create solutions with other teams
• Troubleshoot software issues and debug a large codebase
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests
• Contribute to technical documentation to increase maintainability of software assets

Skills

Backend software

Python

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

AWS services

Containerization

IaC

API design

Agile

Security/Monitoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

Terraform

CDK

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Collectors is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help design and build a scalable back-end powering PSA Set Registry, a flagship experience for collectors to organize and celebrate their PSA-graded collections.

You will own features end-to-end, from design to deployment, and collaborate with product and design teams to deliver high-volume, consumer-facing software using AWS, microservices, and modern cloud architectures.