Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sotheby’s is a premier destination for art and luxury, powered by a modern engineering organization. The Engineering Manager will build and lead distributed engineering teams, oversee team health and delivery, partner with product management, and guide technical quality, reliability, and operational practices.
Responsibilities
- Own the health, output and growth of an engineering team distributed across time zones, from hiring through to career development and performance
- Partner with product management to shape your team’s roadmap, balancing feature delivery, technical investment and operational health
- Set and maintain the quality bar for your team’s area of the platform, including engineering practices, observability, reliability and how work gets reviewed
- Run the delivery cadence: planning, prioritisation, retrospectives, and the day-to-day work of keeping things moving and unblocked
- Manage dependencies and communication across teams, reducing coordination overhead and making sure nothing falls between the cracks
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives, whether that’s standards, tooling, process improvement, or how we grow engineers across the organisation
- Handle incidents and operational issues alongside your team, own the follow-up, and make sure the right things get fixed
- Give your engineers regular, honest feedback and create real opportunities for them to grow
Skills
- 3+ years managing teams of five or more engineers
- You've hired, developed and retained good people
- You have real technical depth
- You don't need to write code every day, but you can engage credibly with architectural decisions, review trade-offs, and spot when something is going sideways before it becomes an incident
- You communicate clearly and adapt to your audience
- You're comfortable in all of those
- You create clarity in ambiguity
- Proven engineering management experience with distributed or remote-first teams across multiple time zones
- A strong technical background in software engineering, with enough depth to guide architectural and infrastructure decisions
- Experience partnering with product management to define priorities and deliver meaningful outcomes
- Track record of hiring well, onboarding effectively, and building teams that retain good people
- A focus on engineering quality: observability, analytics and reporting, testing practices, and ensuring the team ships work they can stand behind
- Familiarity with our core stack: Go, Scala, React/TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, gRPC
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Background in real-time, event-driven, or high-value transaction systems
- Experience establishing engineering standards, governance, or communities of practice
- E-commerce, marketplace, or auction domain experience
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus
- Private health insurance
- Health cash plan and dental insurance
- Workplace nursery benefit
- Generous holiday allowance
- Christmas shutdown
- Summer Fridays
- Volunteer and wellbeing days
- Great hardware
- Cycle to work scheme and eye care vouchers
- Regular social events and meetups
- Use of our London space
- Summer and Christmas parties
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