Staff Software Engineer

Collectors; United States; In loco; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo pieno

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Employee Discounts

401(K) Matching Plan

Health Insurance

Vacation/Paid Time Off

Holiday Pay

Flexible Hours

Descrizione del lavoro

Beckett is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to guide a broad modernization of its microservices and legacy systems. You will own end-to-end architecture across NestJS/TypeScript, Java, and legacy PHP services, shaping data flows, contracts, and scalability while leading AI-assisted engineering practices.

You’ll drive technical direction, mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-team efforts to deliver robust, scalable platforms for grading, pricing, and marketplace services in the sports

Competenze

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading multi-engineer, multi-quarter projects.
• Expert-level backend engineering in TypeScript/Node.js and/or Java, across polyglot stack (TypeScript, Java, PHP, Python, C#).
• Strong, hands-on background in AI tooling and usage integrated into team workflows.
• Strong distributed-systems fundamentals: service boundaries, API design, messaging, idempotency, failure handling.
• Track record of raising engineering standards: testing, observability, documentation, incident response.

Mansioni

• Set technical direction for the team and domain end-to-end architecture.
• Own architecture across services, data stores, and frontends; define data flow and failure modes.
• Design scalable products and services enabling autonomous, iterative development and future growth.
• Lead modernization: strangler pattern from PHP monolith, phased Java→TypeScript migration.
• Understand adjacent systems to identify cross-system risks early.
• Set security, testing, observability, and operational excellence standards; use data to drive improvements.
• Lead AI-assisted engineering adoption: define standards for AI tools, reviews, and verification.
• Plan and deliver projects across 1–2 quarters with clear value-cost prioritization.
• Mentor engineers and raise the organization’s AI fluency.

Conoscenze

System architecture

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

TypeScript/Node.js

Java

AI tooling

REST/GraphQL/gRPC

Testing & observability

Frontend/Next.js

E-commerce/payments

Security

Strumenti

AWS

PostgreSQL

MySQL

TypeScript/Node.js

Java

PHP

Python

C#

Next.js

GraphQL

REST

SQS

AI tooling (Copilot/Claude/Cursor)

Descrizione del lavoro

• Beckett is the trusted authority in sports card and collectibles grading, pricing, and marketplace services. Our platform is mid-transformation: a new generation of NestJS/TypeScript microservices and Next.js frontends is actively replacing a prior generation of Java/Spring Boot services, while two large legacy PHP monoliths still power critical grading and e-commerce workflows. Getting this migration right — without disrupting the business — is the defining technical challenge of the next few years
• As a Staff Software Engineer, your influence extends beyond your team to the technology organization. You have expertise in the entirety of your team’s products and services — how they interact and how data flows between them — and you’re building the same understanding of adjacent systems. You lead projects of moderate-to-significant scope over one-to-two-quarter horizons, design for the platform’s future rather than just the next feature, and are recognized by peers and leaders as an authority in your domain
• Set technical direction
• Own the architecture of your team’s domain end to end: services, data flows, integration points, and failure modes across the full portfolio (e.g., NestJS services, their Postgres/MySQL data stores, the legacy systems they front, and the frontends they serve)
• Design products and services that allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling, deliberately reducing the friction of future changes — service boundaries, contract design, data ownership, and migration paths
• Lead high-stakes modernization work: defining strangler patterns around the PHP monolith, sequencing Java→TypeScript service replacements, and ensuring byte-compatible, low-risk cutovers
• Build a working understanding of adjacent systems and products across the org — grading, marketplace, CRM, payments, identity, data/ETL — and use it to catch cross-system risks early
• Set the bar for security, testing, observability, and operational excellence, and use operational data to drive stability and performance improvements
• Lead the adoption of AI-assisted engineering across the tech org: establish standards and guardrails for AI coding tools (code review expectations, testing requirements, security and IP hygiene), identify where AI agents can accelerate the modernization effort (legacy code comprehension, test generation, migration scaffolding), and measure the impact
• Lead Delivery
• Successfully lead projects of moderate scope and/or complexity spanning 1–2 quarters, coordinating engineers, stakeholders, and dependencies to a predictable landing
• Plan and develop using an explicit value-vs-cost framework, so urgency and prioritization are easily understood by both the team and stakeholders
• Identify and communicate blockers and delays within your team to the right stakeholders before they become surprises
• Multiply the Organization
• Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and documentation within your team and with business stakeholders — initiate and facilitate meaningful discussions around complex issues
• Build strong relationships with teammates, your manager, business stakeholders, and senior engineers across the organization
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and feedback; foster a culture where feedback is sought out and used as a tool for growth
• Raise the org’s collective AI fluency: share proven workflows, prompts, and agent configurations; coach engineers on when AI tooling helps and when it misleads; and keep the team current as the tooling landscape evolves

Benefits

• Employee Discounts: Be your own customer. Receive discounts on select grading services for approved submissions.
• 401(K) Matching Plan: Invest in your future with our competitive 401k matching plan.
• Health Insurance: Collectors offers medical, dental, and vision for you and your family’s well being.
• Vacation/Paid Time Off: Enjoy time away from work with paid vacation for full-time employees.
• Holiday Pay: All regular, full-time employees are eligible for 10 company paid holidays.
• Flexible Hours: Flexible schedules with varying shifts are available to accommodate your needs.

Production AWS depth — ECS, Lambda, networking, IAM — and infrastructure-as-code fluency (AWS CDK and/or Terraform)Deep relational database expertise (PostgreSQL, MySQL): data modeling, migrations, performance, and the realities of shared-database coupling between services8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including demonstrated technical leadership of multi-engineer, multi-quarter projectsExpert-level backend engineering in TypeScript/Node.js and/or Java, with the range to be effective across our polyglot estate (TypeScript, Java 21, PHP, Python, C#)Strong, hands-on background in AI tooling and usage: daily fluency with AI coding assistants and agentic tools ("Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar"), experience integrating them into team workflows (CI, code review, documentation), and mature judgment about verification, security, and the limits of AI-generated codeStrong distributed-systems fundamentals: service boundaries, API/contract design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), messaging (SQS), idempotency, and failure handlingA track record of raising engineering standards: testing strategy, observability, documentation, and incident responseFull-stack range: hands-on production experience across the entire stack — modern React/Next.js frontends, API and service layers, relational data stores, and the infrastructure they run on — with the judgment to design and review at every layer, even where others do the bulk of the implementationExcellent written and verbal communication with technical and business audiences alikeProven experience modernizing legacy systems: strangler-fig migrations, service extraction from monoliths, or platform re-architecture under live trafficExperience with frontend architecture at scale (design systems, micro-frontends, performance budgets) or mobile (React Native/Expo)Experience with e-commerce, marketplace, payments, or high-traffic consumer platformsExperience building LLM-powered features or platforms: LLM API integration (Anthropic/OpenAI), retrieval-augmented generation, evals, or agent frameworks (e.g., MCP) — and shipping them to production responsiblyData platform exposure (Snowflake, ETL pipelines, dimensional modeling) or applied ML (computer vision)Interest in sports cards, gaming, or collectibles!