Senior Software Engineer at Sotheby's · Remote (United Kingdom)
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Distributed Systems
A time you used Distributed Systems: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.
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AWS
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GraphQL
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gRPC
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5+ years of experience
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Located in the United Kingdom (London in-person, or remote UK)
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Event-driven architectures and streaming platforms
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Authentication, authorisation, or compliance-related systems
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E-commerce, marketplace, or auction domain experience
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: Distributed Systems is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: AWS is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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