Engineering Manager

🔥 15 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Sotheby's

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1744

🛒 Retail

🏠 Real Estate

Art • Retail • Real Estate

Sotheby's is a world-renowned auction house recognized for its luxury sales and auctions, dealing in fine art, jewelry, timepieces, fashion, collectibles, books, wine, and spirits. The company facilitates both live auctions and private sales, accessible globally across locations like New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. It also offers specialized services for valuations, fiduciary client advisory, and art restitution. In partnership with Sotheby's International Realty, the firm extends its brand into real estate and auction services for luxury properties. With a rich heritage, Sotheby's continues to pioneer innovation, evident through digital initiatives like Sotheby’s Metaverse, as it maintains a dominant presence in the global luxury market.

📋 Description

• Own the health, output, and growth of an engineering team distributed across time zones, from hiring through career development and performance • Partner with product management to shape the team roadmap, balancing feature delivery, technical investment, and operational health • Set and maintain the quality bar for the team’s platform area, including engineering practices, observability, reliability, and work review • Run planning, prioritisation, retrospectives, and the day-to-day delivery cadence • Manage dependencies and communication across teams • Contribute to engineering-wide standards, tooling, process improvement, and engineer development initiatives • Handle incidents and operational issues, own follow-up, and ensure corrective actions are completed • Give engineers regular feedback and create opportunities for growth

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years managing teams of five or more engineers • Proven engineering management experience with distributed or remote-first teams across multiple time zones • 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 • Focus on engineering quality, including observability, analytics and reporting, testing practices, and ensuring the team ships work they can stand behind • Familiarity with Go, Scala, React/TypeScript, Next.js, GraphQL, and gRPC • Experience with AWS and 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 is useful

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary with 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 • Eye care vouchers • Regular social events and meetups • Use of the London space