Senior Fullstack Engineer

Summary

Join Sotheby's, a world-premier destination for art and luxury, and help revolutionize its 276-year-old business. As a Golang software engineer, you will contribute to building a compelling modern marketplace experience, drive adoption to new demographics, and enhance the circular economy. Collaborate with designers, researchers, and engineers to continuously test and ship features. You will build and optimize internal and consumer-facing tools, design elegant abstractions and APIs, and improve the end-to-end experience for specialists. Work closely with product managers and stakeholders across the company. This role requires a strong communicator who thrives in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.

Requirements

• 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
• 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 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