- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Senior
- Department
- IT & Technology Systems
- Posted
- Nov 10, 2026
About Sotheby's
Sotheby’s is an auction house founded in London in 1744. Its specialists work across fine art and collecting categories including jewelry, watches, handbags, wine, design, and classic cars. The house connects collectors through live and online auctions, private sales, and fixed-price purchases. Its work spans specialist research and cataloging, client services, marketing, technology, finance, and operations, supporting the preparation, sale, and movement of objects across its international network.
Sotheby's seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own and build production systems spanning internal tools, client-facing products, platform infrastructure, and real-time auction services. The role is London-based or remote within the UK, in a remote-first, globally distributed engineering organisation, and requires strength in Go, React/TypeScript, or Scala alongside distributed systems and microservices experience.
Role & Responsibilities
- Build and take ownership of systems across internal tools, client-facing products, platform infrastructure, and real-time auction services.
- Design, deploy, and operate distributed systems and microservices.
- Make pragmatic technical decisions that address business needs and constraints.
- Communicate technical decisions and proposals clearly, contribute to reviews, and collaborate across teams.
- Write maintainable code and use AI and modern tools effectively while applying sound technical judgment.
- Respond to incidents, make trade-offs under pressure, and learn from failures.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience shipping production systems, with ownership of services or products others depend on.
- Strength in at least one of Go, React/TypeScript, or Scala; experience with more than one is a plus.
- Comfort with distributed systems concepts and readiness to learn technologies required by the work.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating distributed systems and microservices.
- Solid relational database knowledge; PostgreSQL is preferred.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, including AWS, and containerisation.
- Located in the United Kingdom, with the ability to work in person in London or remotely within the UK.
- Pragmatic problem-solving, clear communication, comfort collaborating across teams, adaptability, and commitment to code quality and craft.
Skills
Experience
At least 5 years shipping production systems, with ownership of services or products others depend on.
Workplace
The successful candidate will be located in London, England, UK.
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Benefits
Discretionary bonus; private health insurance; health cash plan; dental insurance; workplace nursery benefit; generous holiday allowance; Christmas shutdown; summer Fridays; volunteer and wellbeing days; hardware; cycle to work scheme; eye care vouchers; regular social events and meetups; use of the London workspace.
Culture
Sotheby’s describes its culture in terms of client service, specialist knowledge, curiosity, collaboration, and ethical conduct. Its careers materials emphasize working across disciplines and encouraging employees to explore internal opportunities.
About Cerulean
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