Senior Fullstack Engineer, Pricing
Sotheby's
Posted 2 months ago • Via www.themuse.com
Description
ABOUT SOTHEBY'S
Established in 1744, Sotheby’s promotes access and ownership of exceptional art and luxury objects through auctions, private sales and retail. Our deep expertise across 70 selling categories is supported by a leading technology platform and a global network of specialists spanning 40 countries. Selling categories 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 through RM Sotheby’s and Concierge. Sotheby’s Financial Services is a leading art lender and provides capital solutions for collectors around the world, having originated more than $12 billion in loans since its inception. Sotheby’s new global headquarters is now open at the iconic Breuer building at 945 Madison Avenue in New York City.
THE ROLE
We are in the process of revolutionizing a 276 year old business. We’re looking for extremely talented Golang 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
- Must have expert knowledge and experience with a modern front-end framework like React
- 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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