Senior Software Engineer, TCGplayer
CLIP
$115.2-199.7k
Online marketplace for collectible card games
Open for applications
Online marketplace for collectible card games
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$115.2-199.7k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To establish TCGplayer as the most admired company in the hobby collectibles universe
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field, or a combination of education and experience
- 7 or more years of software development experience
- Experience with large-scale microservice application development, including experience with decomposing monolithic applications
- Experience working with C#/.net core
- Expert knowledge of multiple datastore technologies including both RDBMS (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis)
- Experience with Kafka, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and K8s
What the job involves
- This Platform (internally known as CLIP) team at TCGplayer is responsible for important backend systems that power our marketplace and seller-facing tooling
- These include inventory, listings, price points, and more
- We are doing a lot of greenfield work and are looking to grow the team in order to evolve our systems to align with the latest strategic priorities (it’s all about improving quality of life for sellers on our platform and scaling our existing capabilities)
- Our team prides itself on a culture that fosters camaraderie, embraces diversity, and exudes passion
- We are one of New York State’s 50 best employers and Fortune.com’s top 100 companies for women in the U.S
- You will help design and implement backend services (including microservices, datastores, APIs, and event streams) that will support our next-generation listings, inventory, and price points systems (we’re using C#, .NET Core, Docker, and Kubernetes in AWS)
- Ensure that our backend systems are highly performant and scalable to accommodate an ever growing amount of data and load
- Work closely with internal teams integrating with our backend systems and ship iterative improvements based on their requirements and feedback
- Further decouple our systems from an existing monolithic application
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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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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