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We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to play a central role in the future of our digital products and platform capabilities. You will join and lead a product engineering team responsible for building, operating, and continuously improving software that supports Sotheby’s internal and/or customer-facing experiences.
Job Responsibility:
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
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
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