About the team and role:Roca builds automated sorting systems for the trading card community. The team helps local game stores, hobby shops, collectors, and high-volume sellers identify, organize, and process cards more efficiently through a combination of robotics, software, and deep connection to the hobby they love!
As part of TCGplayer, an eBay company, Roca connects the physical world of collectibles to the digital marketplace. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead to join the Roca Software team and help lead the systems behind that experience, including software running on connected devices, backend services, REST APIs, cloud integrations, internal tools, deployment tooling, and support systems.
You will join a small, collaborative engineering team at an important stage of growth. As the installed fleet expands, this role will help bring structure to complex problems, improve code quality, guide architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and modernize systems that must remain reliable in the field. You will work closely with hardware, firmware, computer vision, cloud engineering, product, support, and Scan and Identify teams to deliver a connected experience across the Roca ecosystem.
This is a hybrid role based in Longmont, Colorado, with regular in-office collaboration expected.What you will accomplish:- Build and maintain software for Roca's robotic sorting systems, balancing new development with improvements to existing products
- Lead technical design for software running on robotic devices and connecting to REST APIs, cloud services, IoT infrastructure, internal tools, and support workflows
- Guide design decisions, engineering standards, and execution across the software team
- Make architecture decisions across system boundaries, data flow, reliability, testing, deployment, observability, and maintainability
- Raise code quality through strong reviews, clear standards, maintainable patterns, and testable design
- Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, debugging, pairing, and day-to-day problem solving
- Improve legacy systems through incremental modernization while continuing to support stable products in the field
- Partner with hardware, firmware, computer vision, cloud engineering, product, support, and Scan and Identify teams to deliver connected product experiences
- Strengthen software development lifecycle practices, including planning, estimation, delivery, and continuous improvement
- Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and delivery expectations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
What you will bring:- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production software
- Experience leading technical direction through mentoring, architecture input, design reviews, delivery planning, or team-level decision making
- Strong experience building applications in a modern object-oriented or modular programming language such as Java, C#, C++, Python, Go, or similar
- Experience designing, building, hosting, or consuming REST APIs
- Working knowledge of SQL or relational databases, including data modeling and access pattern tradeoffs
- A code review approach that improves quality and helps engineers grow
- Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical partners
- Strong judgment, curiosity, and comfort working across evolving systems and priorities
- Helpful experience includes Go and/or Python, Linux, AWS, Docker, networking fundamentals, MQTT, IoT systems, observability, DevOps practices, embedded software environments, connected devices, distributed systems, robotics, automation systems, or Agile delivery practices
Additional DetailsThe base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:
$118,800 - $205,600
Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
If hired, employees will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
Remote roles are not eligible for U.S. visa sponsorship.
