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# Staff Software Engineer - Grading Operations at Collectors

**Location**
: Santa Ana, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Sep 4, 2026

## Description

Collectors is hiring a senior software engineer for its Grading Operations team to own complex, loosely defined projects spanning backend services, APIs, data models, event-driven pipelines, containerized applications, serverless systems, and frontend features. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, strong C# and.NET proficiency, production cloud and database experience, API and integration work, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and mentoring responsibilities. The engineer will collaborate with Product, Technology, and Operations teams, contribute to design documentation, and participate in an on-call rotation.

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