Our Collectors Experience team is enhancing an entirely virtual and digital Collectors ecosystem. We're delivering a unified, end-to-end experience across all our brands, from grading submissions to marketplace serving millions of collectors and investors worldwide. You'll join a high performing engineering team and partner with product, design and cross-functional teams. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help design and build a scalable back-end architecture that powers PSA Set Registry, PSA's flagship experience for collectors to organize, compete, and celebrate their PSA-graded collections. This is a highly visible, consumer-facing product at scale (hundreds of thousands of registered sets) with a deeply engaged user base of collectors who care about every card, ticket, and set they build on the platform.
What You'll Do:
- 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
Who You Are:
- 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
