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 ROLEWe 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.RESPONSIBILITIESHelp deliver on the product vision for reshaping a 300-year old industry through building a compelling modern marketplace experienceHelp drive Sotheby''s contribution to servicing the circular economy and drive adoption of marketplace experience to a completely new target demographicCollaborate with designers, user researchers, and engineers to test and ship features continuouslyBuilding, optimizing, and maintaining internal and consumer-facing tools that enable Sotheby''s sell consigned inventoryDesigning and building elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIsActively looking for ways to improve the end-to-end experience for specialists across Sotheby''s internal-facing product portfolioWorking closely with product managers, and stakeholders across the company.IDEAL EXPERIENCE and COMPETENCIES5+ years of industry engineering experience with proven track recordExcellent 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 effortsMust have proven experience writing, deploying, and running distributed systemsMust have experience writing microservices with clear separation of concernsMust have expert knowledge and experience with either Golang or ScalaMust have expert knowledge and experience with a modern front-end framework like ReactMust have proven experience using data structures and algorithms especially as pertain to web system design and distributed systemsMust have expert knowledge of RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL and writing migrationsWorking knowledge of GraphQL and GRPC is a big plusWorking knowledge and experience writing in Golang is a big plusWorking knowledge and experience with Docker and KubernetesWorking knowledge of cloud platforms such as GCP or AWSWorking knowledge of messaging queue systems

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