Senior Software Engineer

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Sotheby'sArt and Luxury
London or remote within the UKFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Experience
5+ years
Required Skills
AWSPostgreSQLTypeScriptGoReactMicroservicesScalaDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience shipping production systems with real ownership.
  • Experience dealing with incidents and making trade-offs under pressure.
  • Ability to solve business problems pragmatically.
  • Clear communication skills for technical decisions and proposals.
  • Comfortable working across teams.
  • Adaptability to varied day-to-day tasks.
  • Strong craft in writing maintainable code.
  • Proficiency in using AI and modern tooling while understanding system fundamentals.
  • Strong experience with at least one of Go, React/TypeScript, or Scala.
  • Comfort with distributed systems thinking.
  • Readiness to pick up new technologies as required.
  • Experience designing, deploying, and operating distributed systems and microservices.
  • Solid relational database knowledge (PostgreSQL preferred).
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and containerisation.

Responsibilities

  • Own the systems you build, ensuring quality and craft.
  • Learn and adapt to a complex domain.
  • Contribute to internal tooling, client-facing products, and platform infrastructure.
  • Develop real-time systems for high-value sales.
  • Solve business problems pragmatically, considering constraints.
  • Weigh options, make decisions, and collaborate with teams.
  • Communicate technical decisions and proposals clearly.
  • Work effectively across teams to achieve goals.
  • Adapt to varied day-to-day tasks.
  • Write maintainable and scalable code.
  • Utilize AI and modern tooling while maintaining deep system understanding.
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