Sotheby's - Engineering Manager

• You’ve done this before. 3+ years managing teams of five or more engineers. You’ve hired, developed and retained good people. You know what a healthy team looks like and you know how to get there when it isn’t. • You’ve done this before. • 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. Your engineers trust your judgment because you’ve earned it. • You deliver through others. You’re measured by what your team ships, not what you build yourself. You care about outcomes, not activity. • You deliver through others. • You communicate clearly and adapt to your audience. Whether that’s giving context to your team, presenting a plan to leadership, writing up a post-mortem, or navigating a difficult conversation with a direct report. You’re comfortable in all of those. • You communicate clearly and adapt to your audience. • You create clarity in ambiguity. Priorities shift, dependencies tangle, and plans change. You’re the kind of leader who absorbs that complexity and gives your team something they can actually act on. • 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 • Useful: • 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 • RESPONSIBLITIES • RESPONSIBLITIES • 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