Senior Fullstack Engineer

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, and are comfortable with ambiguity in 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

1. Help deliver on the product vision for reshaping a 300-year-old industry through building a compelling modern marketplace experience.
2. Help drive Sotheby's contribution to servicing the circular economy and drive adoption of the marketplace experience to a completely new target demographic.
3. Collaborate with designers, user researchers, and engineers to test and ship features continuously.
4. Build, optimize, and maintain internal and consumer-facing tools that enable Sotheby's to sell consigned inventory.
5. Design and build elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIs.
6. Actively look for ways to improve the end-to-end experience for specialists across Sotheby's internal-facing product portfolio.
7. Work closely with product managers and stakeholders across the company.

IDEAL EXPERIENCE & COMPETENCIES

1. 5+ years of industry engineering experience with a proven track record.
2. Excellent communication skills, including active listening, taking constructive criticism, and providing feedback whenever necessary.
3. Intrinsically driven to innovate and take initiative when seeing a process or a problem that could be improved upon.
4. Eager to learn new technologies and open to learning from others. We are not the place for hard-headed individuals; we thrive on collaborative efforts.
5. Proven experience writing, deploying, and running distributed systems.
6. Experience writing microservices with a clear separation of concerns.
7. Expert knowledge and experience with either Golang or Scala.
8. Proven experience using data structures and algorithms, especially as they pertain to web system design and distributed systems.
9. Expert knowledge of RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL and writing migrations.
10. Working knowledge of GraphQL and GRPC is a big plus.
11. Working knowledge and experience writing in Golang is a big plus.
12. Working knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
13. Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
14. Working knowledge of messaging queue systems.