Engineering Manager, Maps & Search - US

Location: USA <p><strong>Luxury Presence </strong>is building the AI growth platform for real estate. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and other top investors, we're a Series C company that has hit $100M in annual recurring revenue. More than 90,000 real estate professionals, including over 30% of the WSJ Real Trends top 100 agents in the United States, use us to run and grow their business.</p> <h3><strong>The Opportunity</strong></h3> <p>We don't just use AI. We build with it, ship with it, and think with it. With a generous budget for tokens, our engineers use AI agents to write, review, and ship production code every day. We are building toward a world where humans design systems and AI builds them, and we are already far along that path.</p> <p>We are hiring a hands-on <strong>Engineering Manager</strong> to lead <strong>Maps &amp; Search</strong>. This team owns the home search experience across web and mobile. It's one of the most visible, highest-traffic surfaces–the search service alone handles <strong>a billion requests every month</strong>.</p> <p>This is a role for a manager who leads from the front: someone who still lives in their terminal with AI, has strong opinions about how AI changes the SDLC, and wants to amplify what a small, senior, AI-augmented team can accomplish. You will set technical direction, stay close to the code, and help the team produce consistent impact.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <p><strong>Lead and grow the Maps &amp; Search team.</strong> Own hiring, onboarding, coaching, 1:1s, direct feedback, and career development. Treat management as a craft and build a healthy, high-performing team that ships impactful changes.</p> <p><strong>Stay hands-on.</strong> Contribute directly — code and design reviews, architecture, thorny debugging— and stay technical enough to make smart calls on trade-offs.</p> <p><strong>Own and scale a high-throughput search platform.</strong> Drive the architecture, relevance, latency, and reliability of a real estate search system handling ~1B monthly requests and hundreds of millions of listings.</p> <p><strong>Deliver a world-class home search experience.</strong> Own the core home discovery experience across web and mobile — improving engagement, lead conversion, and agent workflows while keeping interactions fast and responsive at scale.</p> <p><strong>Push forward AI-powered discovery.</strong> Partner across teams to bring LLMs and intelligent ranking into search and user workflows, improving how buyers and agents discover, filter, and engage with listings.</p> <p><strong>Shape the roadmap with product and design.</strong> Define <em>what</em> we build and <em>why</em>, not just focusing on the <em>how</em>. Translate user needs and business goals into a clear technical plan, and own delivery end to end — planning, quality, reliability, and incident response.</p> <h3> </h3> <h3><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></h3> <h3><strong>Attributes</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p><strong>You lead from the front.</strong> You're still close to the code and technically respected, and you treat management as a craft — growing engineers, giving clear feedback, and building a team that ships.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>You already build with AI daily.</strong> You use AI as a core part of your workflow, not as a novelty — and you expect your team to as well.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>You have strong opinions, loosely held</strong>, about how AI changes software architecture, team structure, and engineering culture.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>You think in systems.</strong> You connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and business value.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>You communicate clearly and directly.</strong> You can explain complex tradeoffs to product, design, and executive stakeholders.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>You're energized by ambiguity and speed.</strong> You thrive in a fast-growing company where the roadmap evolves and ownership is real.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>You like to have fun at work.</strong> We take our craft seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. We celebrate wins, crack jokes, and genuinely enjoy building together.</p> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>Skills and Experience</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>8+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful senior or staff-level time, plus 2+ years managing engineering teams.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Search experience</strong> — you've worked on search, relevance, ranking, or retrieval systems. It doesn't have to be OpenSearch or Elasticsearch specifically, but you understand how search works and how to make it better.</p> </li> <li> <p>Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and React, with the full-stack fluency to reason about the whole request path from UI to data.</p> </li> <li> <p>Experience designing and operating scalable microservice architectures in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred).</p> </li> <li> <p>Strong understanding of GraphQL, event-driven systems (Kafka), and databases (PostgreSQL, OpenSearch).</p> </li> <li> <p>A proven track record operating high-traffic, low-latency production systems at scale — SLOs, incident response, and capacity planning are second nature.</p> </li> <li> <p>Experience leading high-impact initiatives from concept through production in a SaaS environment.</p> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>Tech Stack</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Frontend:</strong> React, Tailwind, Apollo</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Backend:</strong> Node.js / TypeScript microservices</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Data:</strong> PostgreSQL, OpenSearch</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Infrastructure:</strong> AWS, Kubernetes, Lambda</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Messaging:</strong> Kafka, Redis</p> </li> </ul> <h3>Compensation</h3> <h3>Additional Information</h3> <p><strong>Join us in shaping the future of real estate</strong></p> <p>The real estate industry is in the midst of a seismic shift, and the future belongs to those who break new ground. As one of the fastest-growing companies in the proptech and marketing sectors, Luxury Presence challenges the status quo of what technology can do for real estate agents, leaders, and brokerages.</p> <p>We're a team of agile and tenacious innovators working collaboratively to drive the industry forward. Together, we build game-changing products that empower modern real estate entrepreneurs to dominate their markets. From award-winning web design to agile SEO solutions to cutting-edge AI tools, we deliver tech that anticipates market shifts and keeps our clients ahead of their competition.</p> <p>Founded in 2016 by Stanford Business School alum Malte Kramer, Luxury Presence has grown to a global team ranked on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list three years in a row. We're backed by world-class investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, NextEquity Partners, Toba Capital, and Switch Ventures, and have raised $89 million to date.</p> <p>More than 18,000 real estate businesses rely on our platform, including 30% of the Wall Street Journal RealTrends top agents and teams. Additionally, many of the industry's most powerful brokerages rely on Luxury Presence as a trusted business partner.</p> <p>Every year since 2020, Luxury Presence has ranked on BuiltIn's Best Place to Work lists. HousingWire named our founder and CEO a 2024 Tech Trendsetter, we've received several Tech100 Awards, and we just scored an Inman Innovation Award for Best AI-Powered Platform.</p> <p><strong>Luxury Presence is an Equal Opportunity Employer.</strong> All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.</p> GDPR Compliance: Sourced via verified public channels under Legitimate Interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). [Contact Info Protected]

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