Engineering Manager

Sotheby's • New York, NY

7d • $205,000 - $225,000 • Remote

About The Position

Sotheby's is seeking Engineering Managers to build and lead teams responsible for the systems that power its operations. The role involves working on diverse systems, from inventory valuation and client-facing platforms to identity infrastructure and real-time sales systems. The engineering teams are remote-first and globally distributed, emphasizing a balance of written and verbal communication. This role offers the opportunity to connect engineering work to tangible outcomes in the art and luxury goods market.

Requirements

• 3+ years managing teams of five or more engineers
• Hired, developed and retained good people
• Knows what a healthy team looks like and how to get there when it isn’t
• Real technical depth: can engage credibly with architectural decisions, review trade-offs, and spot when something is going sideways before it becomes an incident
• Delivers through others: measured by what your team ships, not what you build yourself
• Cares about outcomes, not activity
• Communicates clearly and adapts to your audience
• Creates 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

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

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, and volunteer and wellbeing days
• Great hardware
• Cycle to work scheme and eye care vouchers
• Regular social events, meetups, and use of our London space

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed