• Serve as the senior-most technical voice for SimSpace's core frontend, owning architecture decisions and the technical roadmap for shared UI systems. • Lead major frontend initiatives end to end—from requirements gathering and architecture design through delivery—setting clear goals, priorities, and technical direction. • Steward architectural decisions and manage technical and UX debt deliberately, balancing long-term health with delivery needs. • Define and enforce frontend technical standards for code health, performance, testing, and documentation. • Mentor Design Engineers and frontend engineers, modeling strong craft, collaboration, and pragmatism. • Design, build, extend, and maintain SimSpace's design system (e.g., Monorail) and higher-order component libraries, emphasizing consistency, accessibility, responsiveness, and performance. • Contribute directly and deeply to the code, ensuring shared systems stay aligned between design (Figma) and implementation (code, Storybook). • Review and curate contributions from other engineers to shared UI libraries, maintaining high standards for UX quality and code health. • Act as a technical partner to UX Designers—providing feasibility feedback, implementation guidance, and UI engineering insight early in the design process. • Lead accessibility (a11y) best practices at the component and system level. • Identify and address UX and UI quality issues—visual inconsistencies, interaction gaps, and usability bugs—across the product. • Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure quality, performance, and adherence to standards.

• Deliver impactful full-stack features that will benefit Medicare brokers and beneficiaries • Work closely with product to understand the relationship between agents and Medicare beneficiaries, developing features that improve retiree outcomes • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide constructive feedback on design mockups and product scope • Identify and manage technical debt while building robust architectures to support platform scalability • Actively contribute to development standards by promoting best practices and giving constructive feedback in code reviews and technical designs • Build with modern AI-powered developer tools that remove friction and let you focus on meaningful problems - and help us continue to grow how we use them across the team.

• Deliver high-quality, production-ready code with strong testing and reliability practices • Own well-scoped features and systems end-to-end • Contribute to design discussions and implementation decisions • Navigate ambiguity with increasing independence • Build deep understanding of the systems and domains you work in • Lead design and implementation of complex systems across teams • Own and be accountable for systems or major components end-to-end • Drive technical direction and influence product decisions • Operate effectively in ambiguity and define clear paths forward • Mentor other engineers and elevate engineering standards • Build, ship, and maintain features and systems that support mission-critical environments • Contribute to system design, architecture, and implementation decisions • Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions • Identify and reduce ambiguity in product and technical requirements • Debug, optimize, and support production systems (including on-call rotation) • Integrate with existing defense systems while ensuring interoperability and security compliance • Contribute to and support the open source ecosystems we depend on • Develop and maintain technical documentation (designs, runbooks, user guides) • Participates in a shared 24x7 on-call rotation, owning incident response, troubleshooting, and coordination to ensure reliable production systems

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. We’re 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. As part of our interview process, we request that candidates have their cameras on during video interviews. This helps foster meaningful conversation and allows us to create an experience that closely resembles our standard working environment. Certain interview steps may take place by phone. For remote roles, and at our discretion, candidates may be asked to participate in an on-site interview as part of the final stages of the process. We understand there may be occasional circumstances requiring accommodation and are happy to discuss them as needed. Your recruiter will be able to clarify expectations and answer any questions you have. We’re looking for Full-Stack Stack Staff Software Engineers to help shape the future of the collectibles industry through scalable platforms, highly intricate grading architecture, and engaging customer experiences that power a connected ecosystem for collectors around the world. These are backend-leaning roles focus on building robust services, improving scalability and performance, and delivering innovative features and tooling that make collecting more seamless, trusted, and engaging. You’ll help drive the digital transformation of a rapidly evolving industry, contributing to both new innovation and the continued evolution of platforms that sit at the center of how collectors buy, sell, authenticate, grade, and engage with the things they love. 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 You’ll Do: - Design and build scalable cloud-based systems on AWS that power core collectibles platforms and experiences - Develop APIs and backend services that enable seamless web and mobile customer journeys across buying, selling, authentication, and grading - Own technical architecture and delivery of end-to-end features, from design through deployment, with staff-level influence across teams - Work on highly intricate grading and authentication workflows that ensure trust, accuracy, and consistency at scale - Improve and evolve existing systems, identifying opportunities to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability - Leverage modern AI tools and techniques to accelerate development, improve engineering velocity, and explore new ways of building - Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship, raising engineering quality across teams Who You Are: - 7+ years of software engineering experience building web applications, APIs, and distributed systems at scale - Experience at product-driven, tech-forward companies building service-oriented or microservice-based systems - 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience, including serverless and event-driven architectures - Use modern AI tools (e.g. Claude Cowork, Codex) as a crucial part of your development workflow to accelerate delivery, improve engineering velocity, and explore new approaches to building that drive team-wide productivity and innovation - Strong fundamentals in engineering (OOP, design patterns, testing, security, observability), with deep proficiency in at least one object-oriented language and ability and willingness to work across languages such as Python, C#, or Java - Familiarity with modern client-side frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js) and delivering consumer-facing digital experiences - Proven experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional product teams embedded with Product, Design, TPM, and Business partners, shaping requirements, tradeoffs, and execution end-to-end ​ The salary range for this position is $165,848 - $269,259. 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. Collectors uses e-Verify to validate your ability to work legally in the United States. We are aware that there are instances where individuals are receiving job offers that fraudulently allege to be from Collectors or one of our business units. This type of fraud can be carried out through false websites, through fake e-mails claiming to be from the company or through social media. We never ask for personal information such as your bank account, Social Security numbers or National IDs, nor do we send or request payments for the purchase of business-related equipment. If you suspect fraud, please reach out to people@collectors.com. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We believe that a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills will better service the diverse community of collectors we support. If you require an accommodation to apply or interview with us due to a disability or special need, please email people@collectors.com. U.S. residents: for disclosures relating to personal information we collect during the employment application and recruitment process, please see our Privacy Notice for U.S. Applicants. If you are based in California, you can read information for California residents here.