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.
