[Hiring] Engineering Manager, Maps & Search @Luxury Presence

Role Description

We are hiring a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Maps & Search. 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 a billion requests every month.

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.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow the Maps & Search team.
• Own hiring, onboarding, coaching, 1:1s, direct feedback, and career development.
• Stay hands-on with code and design reviews, architecture, and thorny debugging.
• Own and scale a high-throughput search platform.
• Deliver a world-class home search experience.
• Push forward AI-powered discovery.
• Shape the roadmap with product and design.

Qualifications

• You lead from the front.
• You already build with AI daily.
• You have strong opinions, loosely held, about how AI changes software architecture, team structure, and engineering culture.
• You think in systems.
• You communicate clearly and directly.
• You're energized by ambiguity and speed.
• You like to have fun at work.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful senior or staff-level time, plus 2+ years managing engineering teams.
• Search experience — you've worked on search, relevance, ranking, or retrieval systems.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
• Experience designing and operating scalable microservice architectures in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred).
• Strong understanding of GraphQL, event-driven systems (Kafka), and databases (PostgreSQL, OpenSearch).
• A proven track record operating high-traffic, low-latency production systems at scale.
• Experience leading high-impact initiatives from concept through production in a SaaS environment.

Tech Stack

• Frontend: React, Tailwind, Apollo
• Backend: Node.js / TypeScript microservices
• Data: PostgreSQL, OpenSearch
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Lambda
• Messaging: Kafka, Redis

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Comprehensive health benefits.
• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• Professional development opportunities.

Company Description

Luxury Presence 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.

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.

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.