Staff Engineer

THE ROLE

You have a passion for building functional, elegant, and resilient applications and services, and wish to tackle hard product and engineering challenges working in concert with smart people. You have the ability to take on complex problems, learn quickly, iterate, and persist towards a good solution. You are customer-focused and passionate about delivering tools that will delight and empower your peers.

 RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build, optimize, and maintain customer-facing products and platforms.
• Provide technical expertise and leadership with engineering.
• Design elegant abstractions, highly useable and elegant products, and robust APIs.
• Work closely with engineers, product owners, and stakeholders across the company.
• Communicate persuasively with peers to inspire cooperation and collaboration.
• Mentor, pair, and delegate work to encourage the growth of others.
• Make well-reasoned decisions that inspire and energize others.
• Provide technical leadership so that others can contribute confidently.
• Help recruit, interview, and generally make Sotheby’s a great home for developers.

IDEAL EXPERIENCE & COMPETENCIES

• 7+ years of experience in engineering; building product frontends, backends, APIs, services, and platforms.
• Experience with one or more programming languages including but not limited to: Go, Node.js, Javascript, Python, Scala, or Java.
• Experience with Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with relational database systems (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Exposure to Microservices Architecture and Observability (Kubernetes, Docker, Services Meshes, Distributed Services, Tracing).
• Exposure to event streaming platforms (such as Kafka and Kinesis).

The proposed base salary for this position ranges from $175,000-$215,000. In addition to base salary successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus, as well as a competitive benefits package. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, licensure or certifications obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered.