Senior Software Engineer, Back-End (Payments)

Collectors is the leading creator of innovative technology that provides value-added services for collectors worldwide. We grade authenticate vault and sell millions of record-setting collectibles all while modernizing and digitalizing the process to further our mission of helping collectors pursue their passions. Were always on the lookout for talented people to join our growing team.

Our services span collectible trading cards autographs comic books coins video games event tickets and memorabilia. Our subsidiaries include PSA PCGS Beckett SGC and Card Ladder.

Since our founding in 1986 we have graded and authenticated millions of items. We employ more than 3000 people across our headquarters in Santa Ana California and offices in New Jersey Texas Florida Japan Shanghai Hong Kong Canada Mexico Germany and France.

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About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Payments team a critical engineering domain responsible for building scaling and evolving the payments infrastructure that powers every transaction across the Collectors ecosystem.

This team owns the full lifecycle of payment capabilities: integrating with and abstracting across multiple payment gateway providers (including Stripe and PayPal) supporting payment methods spanning credit card ACH and digital wallets and building both the APIs that downstream services depend on and the web application experiences that customers and internal tools rely on. You will work across backend APIs and modern frontend surfaces partnering with product design and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver reliable scalable and secure payment experiences

This is a high-impact high-visibility role. Payments is the financial backbone of our marketplace touching grading order checkout vault and consignment transactions partner payouts and customer wallet top-ups. You will have direct influence over architecture decisions gateway integrations and the quality bar for everything that ships.

We believe there is significant value in onsite partnership and team collaboration and candidates within 1-hour commuting distance of the office may be expected to work onsite most of the time. Additional details will be discussed during the recruiting process.

What Youll Do

• Build and evolve multi-gateway payment integrations: Design implement and maintain integrations with multiple payment gateway providers including Stripe PayPal and others building clean abstractions that minimize disruption when adding or swapping gateways while owning payment flows end-to-end from initiation through settlement refund and reconciliation.

• Deliver full-stack payment experiences: Develop backend payment services and APIs in C#/.NET while building intuitive customer-facing experiences in React Svelte and TypeScript that power checkout and payment management collaborating closely with design and product to ensure every flow is accessible and conversion-optimized.

• Champion security compliance and resilience: Apply PCI-DSS best practices and resilient design patterns including tokenization idempotency retries and audit controls to ensure secure and reliable payment processing at scale partnering with Security and Compliance teams to maintain and advance our certifications.

• Take an AI-first approach to building: Leverage AI-assisted development tools throughout the software lifecycle to accelerate delivery improve quality and evolve engineering best practices.

• Architect for scale and observability: Design and operate distributed event-driven services on AWS and Kubernetes using metrics tracing and alerting to maintain highly availability and accelerate incident response.

• Drive cross-functional execution: Translate business requirements into technical solutions and partner across Payments Marketplace Grading Vault and platform teams to deliver seamless payment experiences that connect the Collectors ecosystem.

Who You Are

• 6 years engineering experience. You have a track record of designing shipping and scaling products that have measurable business impact. Ideally 2 years operating as a Senior IC or equivalent technical leadership level at a high-growth company or a scaled consumer platform.

• Deep backend expertise in C# (.NET). Youre comfortable owning complex API surfaces async patterns and data consistency in distributed systems.

• Frontend range in React Svelte and TypeScript. You build clean responsive payment UIs and understand the nuances of state management form handling and secure client-side data flows.

• Strong fundamentals working with databases and data modeling both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB). Youre comfortable designing schemas writing efficient queries and choosing the right storage layer for the problem.

• Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies. Youre comfortable working in iterative delivery cycles participating in sprint planning and adapting quickly to changing priorities.

• Payments or fintech experience. You understand gateway integrations idempotency webhook reliability tokenization and PCI compliance in production environments.

• Distributed-systems depth. Youve designed and operated microservices and Kafka-based event-driven architectures run workloads on Kubernetes and know your way around the AWS ecosystem.

• AI-first engineer. You build with AI tooling across the SDLC from planning and code generation to review and debugging. You have a clear practiced point of view on how AI raises the quality bar and accelerates delivery.

• Observability-first mindset. You instrument what you ship using Datadog or similar tools. Youre comfortable building dashboards setting up monitoring/alerting and using distributed tracing to debug production issues.

• Security-minded. You treat payment security as a first-class engineering concern not an afterthought.

• Influential communicator. A strong written and verbal communicator with sharp analytical and troubleshooting instincts you align engineers product partners and stakeholders without direct authority make crisp calls and bring people with you.

• Bias for ownership. You have an extreme ownership mindset and will wear any hat required to get the job done. You thrive in a fast-moving self-directed environment you set the bar hold it and take full accountability for outcomes.

• Passion for collecting is a plus.

Salary Range:

The salary range for this position is $140971-$228870 Actual compensation on this range varies based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors including location job level experience and skill set. This role may be eligible for bonuses commissions or other forms of compensation please ask your recruiter for details.

Reasons To Join Us:

• Health Insurance:All full-time employees are eligible to enroll in Medical Dental and Vision

• Additional Benefits:Full-time employees are eligible for fertility commuter and educational assistance benefits

• 401(K) Matching Plan:We are proud to offer a competitive 401k matching plan to our employees to support their future financial goals

• Vacation:All salaried employees are eligible for flexible time-off

• Holiday Pay:All regular full-time employees are eligible for ten company paid holidays

• Employee Discounts:Employees receive discounts on select grading services for approved submissions

• Flexible Hours:Many of our teams offer flexible schedules with varying shifts and will work with you to accommodate your needs

• Fun Working Environment:Our team members are invited to participate in celebrations holiday events and team building activities

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