Sotheby's

Engineering Manager

• Builds and leads a product engineering team of highly skilled software engineers, creating an environment of clarity, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Delivers high-quality software outcomes across feature delivery, reliability, security, and operational excellence
• Builds, optimises, and maintains internal and/or consumer-facing tools and services
• Guides the design and build of elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIs where reuse creates leverage
• Partners with engineers, product managers, design, and other stakeholders to test and ship features continuously
• Actively looks for ways to improve the end-to-end experience across Sotheby’s product portfolio, including reducing friction, improving performance, and raising quality
• Works closely with product managers on roadmaps, prioritisation, and stakeholder alignment, balancing new development with technical debt reduction
• Drives healthy engineering practices: planning, delivery predictability, incident response, postmortems, observability, and sustainable ways of working
• Supports cross-team collaboration by communicating clearly, aligning on interfaces/contracts, and ensuring effective ownership boundaries
• Stays close to the work through design reviews, code review practices, and hands-on problem solving when it is the most effective way to unblock progress