Artsy Engineering [](https://circleci.com/gh/artsy/README)

Welcome to Artsy! If you're a new team member, we're excited to have you! Here are your onboarding docs.

This repo is a work in progress. In fact, your first pull request could be to fix or add to this doc. Reach out to your mentor or anyone else on the engineering team with questions, or try the #dev Slack channel 🔒.

Whether you're seasoned or fresh out of school, take a moment to read Your First 60 Days at an Engineering Job.

We split this repo out into different sections, each one has a summary of what's inside to make it easy to browse.

Section
Requests for Comments (RFCs)	Engineering-wide proposals that require discussion and feedback before implementation.
Careers at Artsy	How do we grow people
Engineering Culture	What makes Artsy Engineering tick?
Events at Artsy	Documentation on regularly occurring events and meetings.
Hiring at Artsy	How do we hire people
Onboarding Notes for New Engineers	Your first steps to being productive
Playbooks	Tips, procedures, and best practices
Engineering Practices	How do we handle cross-functional concerns.
Engineering Recommendations	Collections of further reading.
Systems	How do our systems work

Artsy Engineering Operations

Teams

Teams at Artsy are cross functional. A regular team being composed of a Product Manager, a Product Designer, a Data Analyst, an Engineering Manager and Engineers. Each team has a mission, eg. "From negotiation to fulfillment, Emerald aims to facilitate an enjoyable, consistent, secure, and global deal-closure experience that leaves collectors, sellers, and Artsy Admin eager to return.", and quarterly goals aligned with our company objectives.

You can see this organization in the PDDE section of Notion 🔒.

In addition to working on a product team, engineers are encouraged to participate in our practices:

• Platform Practice

  • Practice lead: Matt Jones
  • Slack: #practice-platform 🔒
  • Notion 🔒

• Mobile Practice

  • Practice co-leads: George Kartalis and Sultan Al-Maari
  • Slack: #practice-mobile 🔒
  • Notion 🔒

• Web Practice

  • Practice lead: Rachel Quartararo
  • Slack: #practice-web 🔒
  • Notion 🔒

Support

If you are on call or asked to fix an immediate issue reference our engineering playbooks 🔒 for up-to-date solutions to potential issues.

About Artsy

This project is the work of engineers at Artsy, the world's leading and largest online art marketplace and platform for discovering art.

Learn more about us from our blog and by following @ArtsyOpenSource or explore our public data by checking out our API. If you're interested in a career at Artsy, read through our job postings!