Senior Software Engineer – Grading Operations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain internal software that supports the grading and authentication processes for Collectors.

• Leverage AI tools, ideally Claude, throughout the software design, architecture, and implementation phases while ensuring high-quality outputs.

• Create backend services, RESTful APIs, and data models for applications related to internal grading and authentication.

• Work with containerized .NET applications, serverless APIs, and Python background processing tasks.

• Design and implement asynchronous and event-driven systems to ensure a reliable flow of high-volume operational data.

• Build frontend features using JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js.

• Collaborate with Product, Technology, and Operations teams to convert business requirements into technical solutions.

• Diagnose and resolve data, integration, service, and user-interface problems across a large codebase.

• Participate in an on-call rotation.

• Contribute to technical documentation and enhance system design, code quality, observability, and engineering practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in software engineering, focusing on building production applications with significant backend experience and some frontend delivery.

• At least 3 years of experience or strong expertise in C# and .NET.

• Regular use of AI tools, preferably Claude, with the ability to assess and take ownership of its outcomes.

• Proven experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs and integrating services.

• Skilled in defining module boundaries and recognizing when capabilities should be separated into distinct services.

• Experienced in writing and maintaining automated tests for production services.

• Solid understanding of relational databases and data modeling principles, such as SQL Server or PostgreSQL.

• Practical experience in operating cloud production services, including Docker, Kubernetes or ECS, serverless compute behind an API gateway, and managed messaging and data stores.

• Familiarity with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and a component-based frontend framework.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation, and monitoring/observability tools such as CloudWatch or Datadog.

• Excellent communication, troubleshooting, and technical documentation abilities.

• Experience translating complex Product and Operations requirements into scalable systems.

• Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Must possess legal authorization to work in the United States.

• Nice to have: experience with asynchronous, event-driven, and distributed systems.

• Nice to have: familiarity with AWS, Python, pytest or unittest, Apache Kafka, DynamoDB, or Vue.js.

• Nice to have: experience in optimizing high-volume workflows.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work options.

• Possibility of an on-site interview for remote positions at the employer's discretion.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities.

• Reasonable accommodations provided during the application and interview process.