Lead Backend Engineer, GCP

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Hybrid Role - 3 days in our Toronto office

Who We Are

TCGplayer now a part of eBay connects a global community of millions of buyers with tens of thousands of retailers in a $25B global collectible card game and collectible hobbyist space. We pride ourselves on a culture of inclusion that fosters camaraderie embraces diversity and exudes passion. We are one of New York States 50 best employers and top 100 companies for women in the U.S!

The TCGplayer Warehouse Management System (WMS) team works on developing software solutions to help the Seller and Buyers of Trading Card Games.

We are building a full-service product to facilitate the authentication of TCGs so that buyers and sellers can interact with confidence knowing their products are genuine and at a fair market price.
In addition to that the team is building a full WMS encapsulating Receiving Inventory Picking and Shipping.

The Impact You Will Make Here

We are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to lead the design and development of distributed systems and cloud this role you will combine deep backend expertise with hands-on leadership driving system architecture building scalable services and shaping infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

Youll work closely with a small team of six engineers to deliver reliable high-impact solutions owning projects end to end from design through the pipeline to production. The ideal candidate brings strong experience building complex backend systems developing and operating cloud infrastructure (GCP) hands-on Java expertise and the ability to lead autonomously while setting a high technical bar.

• Architect design develop and test complex multi-tier distributed Warehouse Management System software systems

• Lead architecture discussions develop well-documented design docs and facilitate development and code reviews ensuring alignment with industry standards

• Work with product managers collaborators and cross-functional teams to build software solutions that fulfill functional and non-functional needs establish project plans and deliverables

• Estimate engineering effort plan execution cycles and roll out system changes

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in software systems & ensure systems are secure scalable and maintainable

• Write Unit and Integration tests and ensure software developed meets high quality standards

• Stay updated on emerging technologies and integrate them into development processes whenever applicable

• Function as a team leader utilizing communication leadership and problem-solving skills

What You Bring to the Team

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field plus 8 years of experience or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field plus 7 years of hands-on experience in building large-scale distributed systems

• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) particularly in Google Cloud Run and deployment pipelines

• Extensive hands-on experience and expertise in object-oriented design methodology and application development using Java/J2EE OR Kotlin including frameworks such as Spring Boot

• Strong expertise in designing and developing REST API

• Deep understanding of SQL Databases preferably experience Postgres

• Familiarity with tuning systems architecture thread management and problem analysis

• Expertise with Terraform deployments

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