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Fully Remote (Within the United States)
About the team and the role:
An eBay company, TCGplayer is on a quest to be the most trusted trading card game (TCG) platform — connecting and empowering the hobby community. Founded by and for TCG enthusiasts, we operate a global marketplace, and create tools, technologies and solutions that help small businesses simply and profitably sell TCGs at scale.
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. 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!
What you will accomplish:
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.
What you will bring:
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
The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:
$132,000 - $222,100Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
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