Remote Engineering Manager: Lead Global Tech Teams

Sotheby's; New York (NY); Remote; USD 205,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Health cash plan and dental insurance

Workplace nursery benefit

Generous holiday allowance

Great hardware

Cycle to work scheme

Eye care vouchers

Regular social events

Job summary

Sotheby’s is seeking an engineering leader to build and mentor distributed teams across time zones. You’ll set roadmaps with product partners, enforce quality standards, and drive reliable, scalable systems powering live auctions and marketplaces.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, and operations, delivering high-impact outcomes while growing engineers through coaching, feedback, and scalable practices.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Engineering management

Distributed teams

Technical depth

Cross-functional collaboration

People leadership

Architectural decisions

Tools

Go

Scala

React/TypeScript

Next.js

GraphQL

gRPC

Job description

Sotheby’s is seeking an engineering leader to build and mentor distributed teams across time zones. You’ll set roadmaps with product partners, enforce quality standards, and drive reliable, scalable systems powering live auctions and marketplaces.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, and operations, delivering high-impact outcomes while growing engineers through coaching, feedback, and scalable practices.