Remote Senior Fullstack Engineer, Auction

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.