Sotheby's

www.sothebys.com

2 Jobs

2,899 Employees

About the Company

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.

Listed Jobs

Company Name: Sotheby's
Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
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 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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The Company is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race (including, without limitation, traits historically associated with race, such as natural hair, hair texture, and protective and treated or untreated hairstyles), color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership/union status, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic predisposition, genetic information, reproductive health decision, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, alienage or citizenship status, domestic violence victim status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province or local law. The Company complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it operates.

London, United Kingdom

Remote

19-03-2025

Company Name: Sotheby's
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer in Test
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

This role is for an experienced Software Engineer in Test to join our team. The ideal candidate has expertise with quality processes and technical leadership in high level test designs in CI/CD and local environments. They will also have the ability to dive deep into the most complex technical problems to develop scalable test automation solutions to enable high-quality continuous testing and release infrastructure. They will help ensure working with multiple scrum engineering teams that we deliver the highest quality experience for our clients.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Engineers , Product Managers, Dev Ops and Engineering Managers to drive and implement high-impact quality initiatives.
Develop quality initiatives monitoring tools; and common frameworks to support the quality initiatives.
Drive the adoption of best practices in test automation code design and maintenance to ensure reliability and scalability of the automated tests.
Partner with various teams analyzing the requirements and functionality of applications, and developing framework and automated tests to validate requirements and performance.
Conduct system analysis to uncover potential quality issues within applications, especially focusing on the identification of obscure and difficult-to-detect problems.
Mentors engineers on test automation and tooling.
Assists in identifying and resolving technical blockers or impediments to automation initiatives.
Perform maintenance/upkeep of test frameworks.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Ideal Experience & Competencies

Requires Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent technical degree/experience.
7+ years of experience as a Sr. Software Developer in Test (functional, end to end integration, regression, performance and scalability testing) for web based products including microservices based products.
Proficient in adapting multiple object-oriented programming languages, scripting languages and design patterns pertinent to architecting and developing automated front end and backend tests based on the product’s internal design.
Proven analytical and leadership skills, and the ability to proactively problem-solve in cross-functional teams including software development in a fast paced environment.
Demonstrated experience in creating and maintaining comprehensive, user-friendly documentation for technical processes and tools.
Hands-on experience with test automation processes in CI/CD environments and tools such as Selenium/Webdrier.io, and TestNG, API testing tools and Appium is a must.
Sound working knowledge of various cloud technologies and tools including K8s and Docker.
Ability to work in a fast paced and distributed environment and adapt to internally triggered changes.
Good understanding of various DevOps tools with previous experience creating/managing GitHub Actions, and contributing to CI/CD systems. (Familiarity with Bazel is a plus.)
The successful candidate is highly enthusiastic about learning new technologies, has exceptional communication and presentation abilities, and is skilled in contributing to, participating in, and providing expertise on sophisticated and dynamic projects.

To view our Candidate Privacy Notice for the US, please click here.

To view our Candidate Privacy Notice for the UK, Hong Kong, France and Switzerland, please click here.

The Company is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race (including, without limitation, traits historically associated with race, such as natural hair, hair texture, and protective and treated or untreated hairstyles), color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership/union status, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic predisposition, genetic information, reproductive health decision, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, alienage or citizenship status, domestic violence victim status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province or local law. The Company complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it operates.

London, United Kingdom

On site

31-03-2025