π - The documentation for being an Artsy Engineer
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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 π.
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 |
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 π.
In addition to working on a product team, engineers are encouraged to participate in our practices:
Platform Practice
Mobile Practice
Web Practice
If you are on call or asked to fix an immediate issue reference our engineering playbooks π for up-to-date solutions to potential issues.
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!
1,468 followers Β· starred Jan 2023
49 followers Β· starred Jan 2019
47 followers Β· starred Jan 2023
37 followers Β· starred Apr 2019
π - The documentation for being an Artsy Engineer
TypeScript
1,141
1,055 commits
updated Oct 8, 2026
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 π.
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 |
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 π.
In addition to working on a product team, engineers are encouraged to participate in our practices:
Platform Practice
Mobile Practice
Web Practice
If you are on call or asked to fix an immediate issue reference our engineering playbooks π for up-to-date solutions to potential issues.
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!
1,468 followers Β· starred Jan 2023
49 followers Β· starred Jan 2019
47 followers Β· starred Jan 2023
37 followers Β· starred Apr 2019
