Senior Fullstack Engineer

Summary

Join Sotheby's, a world-premier destination for art and luxury, as we revolutionize our 276-year-old business. We seek highly talented Golang or Scala software engineers to reshape Sotheby's future through exceptional engineering, software development, and design. The ideal candidate will drive technical vision, product development, and innovation, while optimizing complex problems and improving efficiency. We value collaborative team players who are data-driven, proactive, and eager to learn in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. The role requires strong communication skills and the ability to thrive in a diverse, multicultural online setting. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to a modern marketplace experience and the circular economy.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry engineering experience with proven track record
• Excellent communication skills
• 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of GraphQL and GRPC
• Working knowledge and experience writing in Golang
• Working knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
• Working knowledge of messaging queue systems