Remote-First Engineering Manager – Lead Global Teams

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 119,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Discretionary bonus

Private health insurance

Health cash plan

Dental insurance

Cycle to work

Great hardware

London space access

Job summary

Sotheby’s is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead distributed teams across time zones, shaping roadmaps and technical strategy. You’ll partner with product management, uphold high quality standards, and drive operational health across live platforms supporting auctions, inventory, and client interactions.

You’ll work in a remote‑first, globally distributed setup with a focus on collaboration, clear communication, and building teams that thrive in ambiguity. London or remote within the UK.

Qualifications

• Proven engineering management experience with distributed or remote‑first teams across multiple time zones.
• Strong technical background 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

Hiring & retention

Architectural decisions

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Tools

Go

Scala

React/TypeScript

Next.js

GraphQL

gRPC

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Sotheby’s is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead distributed teams across time zones, shaping roadmaps and technical strategy. You’ll partner with product management, uphold high quality standards, and drive operational health across live platforms supporting auctions, inventory, and client interactions.

You’ll work in a remote‑first, globally distributed setup with a focus on collaboration, clear communication, and building teams that thrive in ambiguity. London or remote within the UK.