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Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.
Fully Remote Toronto
About the team and the role:
TCGplayer connects hobbyists and hobby businesses to communities. We relentlessly improve the exchange of things and thoughts that fuel passions, providing the most compelling destination and tools for collectible card game enthusiasts and professional sellers! TCGplayer, now a part of eBay, promotes and drives growth of our products and services by connecting a global community of millions of buyers with tens of thousands of retailers in a $25B global collectible hobby market.
The CORE Platform team at TCGplayer is responsible for Catalog and Order systems that powers our marketplace and internal teams’ tooling. Data is shared through messaging buses in Kafka, data processing pipelines, and REST APIs hosted in AWS. These include various catalog APIs and Kafka topics to facilitate data sharing when updates occur, and web applications used by our Catalog Operations team to handle our growing collection of collectibles and hobby product information. We are ramping up development on new architectures and evolving our systems, and we are excited to strengthen the team further!
Our team prides itself on a culture that fosters camaraderie, embraces diversity, and exudes passion! We are one of New York State’s 50 best employers and Fortune.com’s top 100 companies for women in the U.S.
What you will accomplish:
Set architectural direction for the broader organization and help evolve systems toward it
Lead TCGplayer in the migration from a monolithic architecture to microservice architecture
Develop code that meets requirements and aligns with standard methodologies, and conduct code reviews to provide expert mentorship and ensure code is of the highest quality
Build clear, comprehensive documentation and diagrams to further understanding and drive action
Develop detailed technical requirements based on business needs via collaboration with product and engineering counterparts
Use deep technical proven experience of company systems and applications, which could cover applications, services, systems, or frameworks
Participate in the Principal’s Guild to set technical direction, design patterns, and general standard methodologies across the Technology organization
Demonstrate a high level of initiative and attention to detail during daily operations
Encourage peers with high-quality, hands-on technical contributions
What you will bring:
A relevant bachelor’s degree and 12 years of relevant industry, a relevant master's degree and nine years of relevant industry, or 16 years of practical experience
Object-oriented software development experience Must have hands on experience working with C# and .NET Core)
Significant experience in high volume production systems design with consideration for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, fault tolerance, and security
Experience designing and developing microservices in an cloud-based architecture
Expert knowledge of RDBMS technologies (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL stores (Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch)
Expert knowledge of event/stream processing mechanisms, specifically Kafka but also AWS SNS/SQS, RabbitMQ, or AzureBus
Expert knowledge of APM (Application Process Monitoring), particularly Scalyr/DataSet for logs and New Relic for dashboards & alerting
Excellent verbal and written communication, leadership, and collaboration skills
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