Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Sotheby's as an Engineering Manager and lead the Identity Platform team, responsible for the reliability and integrity of client data services. You will build and lead a team of 5-8 engineers, focusing on Sotheby's auction and cataloging systems. Responsibilities include building and maintaining internal and consumer-facing tools, designing elegant abstractions and APIs, and collaborating with other teams. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of engineering experience, including 2+ years in people management, and experience with full-stack development, functional programming languages (preferably Golang), and distributed systems. This role is based in the UK and offers remote work options.

Requirements

• 8+ years of industry engineering experience in a product-driven environment, ideally 2+ in a people management position
• 3+ years focusing on full stack application development, technologies and platforms
• Experience developing with functional programming languages. Preference for Golang experience, but any production and at-scale functional programming experience is great
• Excellent communication skills both internally and externally
• A team player that values opinions and empowers collaboration across functions and teams
• Proactive, eager to learn, highly adaptable and comfortable dealing with ambiguity and a fast paced, ever changing environment
• Intrinsically driven to innovate and to take initiative when seeing a process or a problem which could be improved upon
• Eager to learn new technologies and open to learning from others
• Must have proven experience writing, deploying, and running distributed systems
• Experience in API design and writing microservices with clear separation of concerns
• Must have experience with RDBMS such as Postgres or MySQL and writing migrations

Responsibilities

• Builds and leads a product engineering team of 5-8 highly skilled and experienced software engineers positioned to drive Sotheby's auctions & cataloguing systems and services
• Builds, optimizes, and maintains internal and consumer-facing tools
• Leads a team focused on the design and build of elegant abstractions, shareable libraries, and robust APIs
• Partners with IC’s and managers across design, user research, and engineers to test and ship features continuously
• Actively looks for ways to improve the end-to-end experience for specialists across Sotheby's internal-facing product portfolio
• Works closely with product managers leading the roadmap(s) and stakeholders across the company

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of GraphQL and gRPC a plus
• Working knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
• Working knowledge of event-driven and other messaging queue systems

Benefits

This role is open to anywhere in the UK. You can work remotely from within the UK or work in a hybrid or in-office model from our London office