Engineering Manager
Sotheby's
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- 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
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry engineering experience in a product-driven environment, ideally 3+ years focusing on full stack application development, technologies, and platforms
- 2+ years in a people management position
- Excellent communication skills, both internally and externally
- A team player who values diverse opinions and empowers collaboration across functions and teams
- Proactive, eager to learn, highly adaptable, and comfortable dealing with ambiguity in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
- Intrinsically driven to innovate and to take initiative when seeing a process or problem that could be improved
- Eager to learn new technologies and open to learning from others
- Proven experience writing, deploying, and running production services and/or distributed systems
- Experience in API design and building services with clear separation of concerns
- Experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL and writing migrations
- Preference for Golang experience, but any production, at-scale programming experience is great
- Working knowledge of GraphQL and gRPC is a plus
- Working knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
- Working knowledge of event-driven architectures and messaging queue systems.
Benefits
- flexible work arrangements
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Hard skills
full stack application developmentAPI designPostgresMySQLGolangGraphQLgRPCDockerKubernetesevent-driven architectures
Soft skills
communication skillsteam playercollaborationproactiveadaptabilityinitiativeproblem solvingclarityownershipcontinuous improvement