PSE, Core - TCGplayer

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

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 power 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 manage 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 grow 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 domain-driven microservice architecture

• Develop code that meets requirements and aligns with best practices, 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

• Utilize 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 best practices across the Technology organization

• Demonstrate a high level of initiative and attention to detail during daily operations

• Provide support for mission-critical applications

• Encourage peers with high-quality, hands-on technical contributions
   

What you will bring:

• A relevant bachelor’s degree and 12 years of relevant industry or academic experience, a relevant master's degree and nine years of relevant industry or academic experience, or 16 years of practical experience

• 8+ years of object-oriented software development experience, ideally C# and .NET Core

• Significant experience in high volume production systems craft with consideration for high availability, disaster recovery, performance, fault tolerance, and security 

• Experience crafting and developing microservices in an AWS 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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