Principal Software Engineer, TCGplayer
$132-222.1k
Online marketplace for collectible card games
Be an early applicant
Online marketplace for collectible card games
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$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
- If you’re an experienced and disciplined engineer, with a desire to make a difference in the way we build new tools, this might be the perfect opportunity!
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field, or a combination of education and experience
- 12 or more years of experience as a software engineer with distributed systems
- 5+ years of C# (ASP.Net/.Net Core)
- Significant experience in high volume production systems design with consideration for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, fault tolerance, and security
- Expert knowledge of RDBMS technologies (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL stores (Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch)
- Expert knowledge of APM (Application Process Monitoring), particularly Scalyr/DataSet for logs and New Relic for dashboards & alerting
- Expert knowledge of event/stream processing mechanisms, specifically Kafka, but also with AWS SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, or AzureBus
- Experience designing and developing microservices in an AWS cloud based architecture
- Excellent verbal and written communication, leadership and collaboration skills
What the job involves
- As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be leading large, strategic, or complex areas that have a clear impact on the success of the company
- 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
- Enhance our order management capabilities as we expand internationally and into an omni-channel selling experience
- You will lean on your extensive experience to set development trends and architectural direction for your team and the Engineering organization as a whole
- You will work with your manager to decompose and plan large technical efforts into manageable schedules to ensure the on-time delivery of software
- You will bridge the gap between Engineering and other stakeholders such as Architecture, Ops, Product and even senior management
- You will mentor and level up the members of your team
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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