# Engineering Manager, Maps & Search

**Company:** [Luxury Presence](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/luxury-presence)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, React, GraphQL, Kafka, Postgres, Opensearch, AWS, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, Redis, Tailwind, Apollo, Microservices, Search Ranking
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Leads and grows the Maps & Search engineering team while remaining hands-on with architecture, coding, and operations for a high-throughput home search platform. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, 2+ years of people management, and expertise in search, TypeScript, Node.js, React, and cloud systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Maps & Search team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, 1:1s, feedback, and career development.
- Contribute directly through coding and design reviews, architecture, and complex debugging.
- Own and scale a high-throughput search platform handling approximately 1 billion monthly requests and hundreds of millions of listings.
- Drive search architecture, relevance, latency, reliability, quality, incident response, and capacity planning.
- Own the home discovery experience across web and mobile, improving engagement, lead conversion, and agent workflows.
- Advance AI-powered discovery using LLMs and intelligent ranking.
- Partner with product and design to shape the roadmap, translate user and business needs into technical plans, and deliver initiatives end to end.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful senior- or staff-level experience.
- 2+ years managing engineering teams.
- Experience with search, relevance, ranking, or retrieval systems.
- Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and React, with full-stack fluency.
- Experience designing and operating scalable microservice architectures in cloud-native environments; AWS preferred.
- Strong understanding of GraphQL, event-driven systems, Kafka, and databases including PostgreSQL and OpenSearch.
- Experience operating high-traffic, low-latency production systems at scale.
- Experience leading high-impact initiatives from concept through production in a SaaS environment.
- Strong communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, and ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity and rapid change.
- Experience using AI as a core part of the software development workflow.

## Technology Stack
- **Frontend:** React, Tailwind, Apollo
- **Backend:** Node.js, TypeScript microservices
- **Data:** PostgreSQL, OpenSearch
- **Infrastructure:** AWS, Kubernetes, Lambda
- **Messaging:** Kafka, Redis

## Similar jobs

- [Senior Engineering Manager, SDET](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/63a066f6-ecda-4c63-ad27-7d1b60754de1) - Cribl - Remote - $225k – $270k/yr
- [Engineering Manager of Managers, Service Infrastructure](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/74ad6d7e-1ee0-418e-a688-5aba5cf65a53) - Stripe - Seattle, WA
- [Engineering Manager, App Traffic](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/b52c3c30-68bf-4cef-b721-80047ae6da93) - Databricks - Mountain View, CA - $190k – $238k/yr
- [Senior Engineering Manager, Mortgage](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/504bc007-9071-49ae-9cc4-f579dd230a96) - Checkr - San Francisco, CA - $269k – $316k/yr
- [Manager, Software Engineering](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/3675ec83-c33d-4ced-9490-12069b269e5e) - Shield AI - San Diego, CA - $170k – $310k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/c830e944-b414-4d44-b20c-83b3e7103b2a
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/c830e944-b414-4d44-b20c-83b3e7103b2a