Remote Staff Front-End Engineer

Summary

Join Sotheby's as a Front-End Staff Engineer to drive the development of cutting-edge user interfaces, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and performance-driven web applications.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant software development experience building, optimizing, and scaling responsive web applications
• Track record of driving projects with an improvement mindset and promoting a solution-oriented approach to ambiguity
• Extensive experience with the following technologies: React, Typescript, Next.js, Jest (plus points for Rescript knowledge) as well as front-end CI/CD tool chain
• Experience identifying and prioritizing issues with broad cross-team and organizational impact
• Significant working knowledge of GraphQL
• Experience building and maintaining design libraries with an emphasis on accessibility
• Deep familiarity with DevOps and application deployment models (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS)

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design and implementation of front-end related solutions, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance
• Build responsive, accessible, and dynamic web interfaces using React with Typescript and Rescript. Build, maintain and optimize our shared design library
• Promote best practices in front-end engineering including clean, modular, and maintainable code. Conduct code reviews, ensure coding standards, and optimize the development workflow
• Ensure high performance of applications across a variety of browsers and devices. Optimize code for speed and scalability
• Stay current with emerging front-end technologies and trends, recommending new tools and frameworks to improve the development process. Thrive in a collaborative remote-first environment
• Communicate technical challenges and solutions to technical as well as non-technical stakeholders. Provide guidance on complex technical issues
• Identify and drive initiatives to increase productivity across the front end engineering organization. Build, optimize, and maintain elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, robust APIs and internal tools