Senior Software Engineer, TCGplayer
Team Lead
$118.8-205.6k
Office located in Longmont, CO
Online marketplace for collectible card games
Be an early applicant
Online marketplace for collectible card games
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$118.8-205.6k
Office located in Longmont, CO
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 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
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.
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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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