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Senior Fullstack Engineer

Remote:

Full Remote

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

United Kingdom

Offer summary

Qualifications:

5+ years of engineering experience, Expertise in Golang or Scala, Experience with distributed systems, Knowledge of RDBMS like Postgres or MySQL.

Key responsabilities:

Drive technical vision and product development
Collaborate with teams to ship features continuously
Build and optimize internal and consumer-facing tools
Improve the end-to-end experience for specialists

Sotheby's Large https://www.sothebys.com/

1001 - 5000 Employees

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Job description

ABOUT SOTHEBY'S

Established in 1744, Sotheby’s is the world’s premier destination for art and luxury. Sotheby’s promotes access to and ownership of exceptional art and luxury objects through auctions and buy-now channels including private sales, e-commerce and retail. Our trusted global marketplace is supported by an industry-leading technology platform and a network of specialists spanning 40 countries and 70 categories which include Contemporary Art, Modern and Impressionist Art, Old Masters, Chinese Works of Art, Jewelry, Watches, Wine and Spirits, and Design, as well as collectible cars and real estate. Sotheby’s believes in the transformative power of art and culture and is committed to making our industries more inclusive, sustainable and collaborative.

THE ROLE

We are in the process of revolutionizing a 276 year old business. We’re looking for extremely talented Golang or Scala software engineers who would help reshape the future of Sotheby’s through exceptional engineering practices, software development and design.

The ideal candidate will help us drive technical vision, product development, innovate, optimize complex problems and improve efficiency. We’re looking for team players that value opinions other than their own, look to data to support their decisions, take initiative and make things better. Ideal candidates are curious and eager to learn, are comfortable with ambiguity and a fast paced, ever changing environment.

Our team is distributed across multiple countries and we require people that are strong communicators and can work in a diverse, multicultural online environment.

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.

IDEAL EXPERIENCE & COMPETENCIES

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 or Scala
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
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

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