Senior Fullstack Engineer, Auction

OverviewEstablished in 1744, Sotheby’s is the world’s premier destination for art and luxury. Sotheby’s promotes access to and ownership of exceptional art and luxury objects through auctions and buy-now channels including private sales, e-commerce and retail. Our trusted global marketplace is supported by an industry-leading technology platform and a network of specialists spanning 40 countries and 70 categories which include Contemporary Art, Modern and Impressionist Art, Old Masters, Chinese Works of Art, Jewelry, Watches, Wine and Spirits, and Design, as well as collectible cars and real estate. Sotheby’s believes in the transformative power of art and culture and is committed to making our industries more inclusive, sustainable and collaborative.

The RoleWe are in the process of revolutionizing a 276 year old business. We’re looking for extremely talented Golang or Scala software engineers who would help reshape the future of Sotheby’s through exceptional engineering practices, software development and design. The ideal candidate will help us drive technical vision, product development, innovate, optimize complex problems and improve efficiency. We’re looking for team players that value opinions other than their own, look to data to support their decisions, take initiative and make things better. Ideal candidates are curious and eager to learn, are comfortable with ambiguity and a fast paced, ever changing environment. Our team is distributed across multiple countries and we require people that are strong communicators and can work in a diverse, multicultural online environment.

Responsibilities

Help deliver on the product vision for reshaping a 300-year old industry through building a compelling modern marketplace experience

Help drive Sotheby''s contribution to servicing the circular economy and drive adoption of marketplace experience to a completely new target demographic

Collaborate with designers, user researchers, and engineers to test and ship features continuously

Building, optimizing, and maintaining internal and consumer-facing tools that enable Sotheby''s sell consigned inventory

Designing and building elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIs

Actively looking for ways to improve the end-to-end experience for specialists across Sotheby''s internal-facing product portfolio

Working closely with product managers, and stakeholders across the company.

Ideal Experience and Competencies

5+ years of industry engineering experience with proven track record

Excellent communication skills! This entails active listening, taking constructive criticism, and providing feedback whenever necessary.

Intrinsically driven to innovate and to take initiative when seeing a process or a problem which could be improved upon.

Eager to learn new technologies and open to learning from others. We are not the place for hard-headed individuals, we strive on collaborative efforts

Must have proven experience writing, deploying, and running distributed systems

Must have experience writing microservices with clear separation of concerns

Must have expert knowledge and experience with either Golang or Scala

Must have expert knowledge and experience with a modern front-end framework like React

Must have proven experience using data structures and algorithms especially as pertain to web system design and distributed systems

Must have expert knowledge of RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL and writing migrations

Working knowledge of GraphQL and GRPC is a big plus

Working knowledge and experience writing in Golang is a big plus

Working knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS

Working knowledge of messaging queue systems

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