Software Engineering Manager, TCGplayer
Backend
$132-222.1k
Online marketplace for collectible card games
Job no longer available
Online marketplace for collectible card games
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$132-222.1k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To establish TCGplayer as the most admired company in the hobby collectibles universe
Role
Who you are
- 8 years of software development experience on large-scale, high-volume, technical systems in a microservice based architecture with AWS for cloud infrastructure
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience) in computer science, information technology or a related field
- 5 or more years of management experience
- Proven success providing project management artifacts in an agile environment
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with engineers and non-engineers alike
- Strong ability to coach engineers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers (including managing remote engineers)
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineering Manager, you will manage a team of engineers that focus on developing, upgrading, scaling and advancing our applications
- Your team will be primarily responsible for enhancing the order management and fulfillment experience for our sellers
- You will be uplifting legacy applications into a microservice based architecture using the latest and greatest technologies
- You will work closely with other development teams to bring a cohesive and intuitive selling experience to our customers across TCGplayer’s suite of tools
- If you’re an experienced and disciplined leader, with a desire to make a difference in the way we build new tools, this might be the perfect opportunity!
- Enhance our order management capabilities as we expand internationally and into an omni-channel selling experience
- Provide leadership and management to software engineers to create scalable software solutions for the TCGplayer platform
- Coordinate with fellow Engineering Managers and Project Managers to manage inter-team dependencies and ensure the on-time delivery of software
- Partner with Cloud Platform & Site Reliability Engineering to ensure we have a trusted and reliable platform for business critical in-store tooling
- Consolidate redundant technologies and applications to build a stable foundation for future business growth
Our take
TCGplayer has established itself as the leading US marketplace for collectible card games like Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! The company has found success through focusing on emphasising the entire customer experience of passionate enthusiasts through multiple community-focused products such as ‘Direct’, a local-store purchasing platform.
Technology has allowed the company to scale at such low-cost that it can facilitate the authentication of more than 100,000 products every day, dramatically improving the experience of enthusiasts used to dealing with scammers. The company has now expanded to serve the wider collectibles market, and in 2022 was acquired by eBay for $295 Million - though it continues to operate its trading-card marketplace autonomously.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2021
$35m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2018
$10m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Life Insurance
- Family Leave Program
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Free coaching, counseling and mental health services
- Stock Options for all employees
- Merch
- After-work Activities
- Constant Learning - Monthly classrooms provide a deeper understanding of company operations, while educational resources help every team member evolve personally and professionally
- Game nights complete with card games, board games and video games. (Plus, we have our own Pauper Magic & Pokémon leagues)
- A casual dress code
- Open office with coworking stations for collaboration and quiet rooms for solitude - treadmill desks and yoga balls help you stay active, while a company library, book club and writing group keep your mind inspired
- Laptop
- Hackathons
- Real-time peer-to-peer feedback tools
- Parking Stipend
- Fitness Equipment
Company HQ
Downtown, Syracuse, NY
Leadership
Robert Bigler
(CEO)Previosuly General Manager at eBay, Senior Vice President at Holt Renfrew, was a Digital Transformation Director at Selfridges Group and Vice President of Strategy and worked in Corporate Development at Sears Canada.
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