Remote Engineering Manager — Lead Global Teams

Sotheby's International; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Discretionary bonus

Private health insurance

Health cash plan

Dental insurance

Generous holiday allowance

Cycle to work

London space access

Job summary

Sotheby’s in London offers an exciting opportunity to lead distributed engineering teams building the platforms that power live auctions, inventory, and client experiences. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll mentor engineers across time zones, shape technical direction, and partner with product management to drive meaningful impact.

You’ll champion quality, observability, and reliable delivery while balancing speed and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering management experience with distributed or remote-first teams across multiple time zones.
• Strong technical background in software engineering to guide architectural 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 testing practices.

Responsibilities

• Own the health, output and growth of an engineering team distributed across time zones.
• 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.

Skills

Engineering management

Distributed/remote teams

Technical depth in software

Product-management partnership

Hiring and retention

Observability & reliability

Tools

Go

Scala

React/TypeScript

Next.js

GraphQL

gRPC

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Sotheby’s in London offers an exciting opportunity to lead distributed engineering teams building the platforms that power live auctions, inventory, and client experiences. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll mentor engineers across time zones, shape technical direction, and partner with product management to drive meaningful impact.

You’ll champion quality, observability, and reliable delivery while balancing speed and technical excellence.