Engineering Manager in London

Established in 1744, Sotheby’s is the world’s premier destination for art and luxury. Sotheby’s promotes access to and ownership of exceptional art and luxury objects through auctions and buy-now channels including private sales, e-commerce and retail. Our trusted global marketplace is supported by an industry-leading technology platform and a network of specialists spanning 40 countries and 70 categories which include Contemporary Art, Modern and Impressionist Art, Old Masters, Chinese Works of Art, Jewelry, Watches, Wine and Spirits, and Design, as well as collectible cars and real estate. Sotheby’s believes in the transformative power of art and culture and is committed to making our industries more inclusive, sustainable and collaborative.

THE ROLE

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to play a central role in the future of our platform services. You will join and lead the Identity Platform team which is responsible for ensuring the reliability and integrity of our client data services. We provide the building blocks other product teams build upon for authentication and authorization, customer background verifications, internal-facing customer relationship management. We want a leader who can be both accountable for this critical team and help it continue to evolve and innovate.

You have a passion for building practical, reusable, and resilient solutions for other engineers, and wish to tackle hard product and engineering challenges working in concert with smart people. You have the ability to take on complex problems, learn quickly, iterate, and persist towards a good solution. You are customer-focused and passionate about delivering tools that will delight and empower your peers.

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.

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.

IDEAL EXPERIENCE & COMPETENCIES

• 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.
• 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.