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Remote Senior Fullstack Engineer, Auction

at Sotheby's

Posted 1 day ago 3 applied

Description:

  • Sotheby’s is the world’s premier destination for art and luxury, established in 1744.
  • The company promotes access to exceptional art and luxury objects through auctions and buy-now channels, including private sales, e-commerce, and retail.
  • Sotheby’s is supported by an industry-leading technology platform and a network of specialists across 40 countries and 70 categories.
  • The role involves revolutionizing a 276-year-old business by hiring talented Golang or Scala software engineers.
  • The ideal candidate will help drive technical vision, product development, innovate, optimize complex problems, and improve efficiency.
  • Candidates should be team players who value diverse opinions, use data to support decisions, take initiative, and strive for improvement.
  • The team is distributed across multiple countries, requiring strong communication skills and the ability to work in a diverse, multicultural online environment.
  • Responsibilities include delivering on the product vision, driving adoption of the marketplace experience, collaborating with designers and engineers, building and maintaining tools, designing APIs, and improving internal product experiences.

Requirements:

  • Candidates must have 5+ years of industry engineering experience with a proven track record.
  • Excellent communication skills are required, including active listening and providing constructive feedback.
  • Candidates should be intrinsically driven to innovate and take initiative in improving processes.
  • Eagerness to learn new technologies and collaborate with others is essential.
  • Proven experience in writing, deploying, and running distributed systems is mandatory.
  • Experience in writing microservices with clear separation of concerns is required.
  • Expert knowledge and experience with either Golang or Scala is necessary.
  • Candidates must have expert knowledge and experience with a modern front-end framework like React.
  • Proven experience using data structures and algorithms related to web system design and distributed systems is required.
  • Expert knowledge of RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL and writing migrations is necessary.
  • Working knowledge of GraphQL and GRPC is a big plus.
  • Working knowledge and experience writing in Golang is a big plus.
  • Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes is beneficial.
  • Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS is required.
  • Experience with messaging queue systems is a plus.

Benefits:

  • Sotheby’s offers a collaborative work environment that values diverse opinions and encourages innovation.
  • The company is committed to making industries more inclusive, sustainable, and collaborative.
  • Employees have the opportunity to work on reshaping a historic business and contribute to a modern marketplace experience.
  • The role provides the chance to work with a distributed team across multiple countries, enhancing global collaboration.
  • Sotheby’s is an equal opportunity employer, ensuring a fair hiring process for all applicants.