Hiring: Staff Software Engineer - Grading Operations Company: Collectors Location: Santa Ana, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:34:28 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : .NET, API Gateway, AWS, Agile, C#, CI/CD, CSS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Datadog, Docker, DynamoDB, ECS, Event-Driven, HTML, Infrastructure as Code, JavaScript, Kafka, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Python, REST, RESTful, SQL Server, Scrum, Serverless, Sketch, Terraform, TypeScript, Vault, Vue, pytest About the job Experience: •8+ years of software engineering experience building production applications, with deep experience in backend systems and some hands-on experience delivering frontend work •5+ years experience / strong proficiency in C# and .NET Required Skills: •Volume climbs every year and the systems have kept up. As our grading operations reach more markets, keeping pace means solving for distance as well as volume. •Take on complex, loosely defined projects, including those that span other engineering teams, and own their design from first sketch to production •Build backend services, APIs, and data models that power the internal applications our grading and authentication teams rely on every day •Work across a mix of architectures, from a large containerized .NET application to smaller serverless APIs and Python background processing jobs, and help decide which is the right fit for new work •Design and implement event-driven and asynchronous systems that keep operational data flowing reliably at high volume •Mentor other engineers on the team through design review, code review, and the way you work through hard problems •Contribute to frontend application development using JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js to deliver features end to end •Partner cross-functionally with Product, Tech, and Operations teams to translate business requirements into clean technical designs across both backend and frontend systems Qualifications: •Routine use of AI tooling as part of how you design and build software, with the judgment to review and take responsibility for what it produces •A track record of delivering projects where the requirements were unclear at the start and the right design was not obvious •A history of mentoring strong engineers and visibly improving how a team designs and builds •Sound judgment about where code belongs, including how to draw module boundaries inside a large application and when a capability warrants its own service, and the ability to explain the calls you got wrong as clearly as the ones you got right •Strong fundamentals working with relational databases and data modeling (e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL) •Hands-on experience building and operating production services in the cloud, including container orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS), serverless compute behind an API gateway, and managed messaging and data stores •Comfortable working in a modern frontend codebase, with hands-on experience in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and a component-based framework •Design documents clear enough that the decision is obvious by the end of them Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!