Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Collectors is the leading creator of innovative technology that provides value-added services for collectors worldwide. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and operate the customer-facing Power Packs experience, manage backend services, and support new product capabilities through effective data modeling and system design.
Responsibilities
- Participate across the entire software development lifecycle, taking features from concept to production release
- Contribute backend and fullstack plumbing where needed to connect services, APIs, and product experiences end to end
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and partner teams to translate business requirements into clean technical designs
- Troubleshoot data, integration, and service issues across a large distributed codebase
- Contribute to technical documentation to improve maintainability and team velocity
- Help raise the bar on system design, observability, and engineering best practices across the team
- Leverage AI tooling, with a preference for Claude, to accelerate software design, architecture, and implementation while maintaining strong engineering judgment and code quality
Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building backend or data-intensive systems in production environments
- 4+ years experience / strong proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot framework
- Strong fundamentals working with databases and data modeling, both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL) & NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB)
- Experience with building applications in the cloud with AWS and experience with serverless infrastructure such as AWS Lambda
- Experience with containerization and orchestration infrastructure (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
- Experience collaborating with Engineering and Product teams to turn complex business requirements into clean and extensible APIs
- Possess strong technical, analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills with the ability to visualize and document processes
- Proficient at using appropriate security, documentation, and/or monitoring best practices
- Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Comfortable using AI tooling, preferably Claude, to support solution design, system architecture, and software implementation in day-to-day engineering work
- Experience supporting white-label or multi-tenant product architectures
- Experience with distributed messaging systems such as Apache Kafka
- Experience with Python as well as test frameworks such as pytest or unittest
- Experience with Node.js and Typescript
- Experience with streaming services such as Twitch
- Experience with fullstack development and contributing to frontend work
Benefits
- All full-time employees are eligible to enroll in Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Full-time employees are eligible for fertility, commuter, and educational assistance benefits
- We are proud to offer a competitive 401k matching plan to our employees to support their future financial goals
- All salaried employees are eligible for flexible time-off
- All regular, full-time employees are eligible for ten company paid holidays
- Employees receive discounts on select grading services for approved submissions
- Many of our teams offer flexible schedules with varying shifts and will work with you to accommodate your needs
- Our team members are invited to participate in celebrations, holiday events, and team building activities
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