Engineering Manager, Maps & Search - CANADA

Embedded Shishya; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxury Presence is seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the Maps & Search team, owning hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and delivering high‑impact changes. You will stay close to code, guide architecture, and ensure fast, scalable real estate search across web and mobile.

You will drive AI-powered discovery, shape the roadmap with product and design, and oversee end-to-end delivery in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with senior or staff-level time, plus 2+ years managing teams.
• Experience in search, relevance, ranking, or retrieval systems.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and React across the full request path.
• Designing and operating scalable microservice architectures in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred).
• Strong understanding of GraphQL, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and OpenSearch.
• Proven track record of high-traffic, low-latency production systems, with SLOs and incident response.
• Experience leading initiatives from concept to production in a SaaS environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Maps & Search team, with hiring, onboarding, coaching, 1:1s, feedback, and career development.
• Stay hands-on with code, reviews, architecture decisions, and thorny debugging.
• Own and scale a high-throughput search platform with latency and reliability focus.
• Deliver a fast, world-class home search experience across web and mobile.
• Advance AI-powered discovery by integrating LLMs and intelligent ranking into search workflows.
• Shape the technical roadmap with product and design, translating user needs into a clear plan and end-to-end delivery.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Team management

Search systems

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Microservices

AWS

GraphQL

Kafka

PostgreSQL

OpenSearch

SRE concepts

SaaS leadership

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

React

AWS

GraphQL

Kafka

PostgreSQL

OpenSearch

Job 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.

The Opportunity

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.

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. Treat management as a craft and build a healthy, high-performing team that ships impactful changes.
• Stay hands‑on. Contribute directly — code and design reviews, architecture, thorny debugging— and stay technical enough to make smart calls on trade‑offs.
• Own and scale a high‑throughput search platform. Drive the architecture, relevance, latency, and reliability of a real estate search system handling ~1B monthly requests and hundreds of millions of listings.
• Deliver a world‑class home search experience. 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.
• Push forward AI‑powered discovery. 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.
• Shape the roadmap with product and design. Define what we build and why, not just focusing on the how. Translate user needs and business goals into a clear technical plan, and own delivery end to end — planning, quality, reliability, and incident response.

What We're Looking For

Attributes

• You lead from the front. 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.
• You already build with AI daily. You use AI as a core part of your workflow, not as a novelty — and you expect your team to as well.
• You have strong opinions, loosely held, about how AI changes software architecture, team structure, and engineering culture.
• You think in systems. You connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and business value.
• You communicate clearly and directly. You can explain complex tradeoffs to product, design, and executive stakeholders.
• You're energized by ambiguity and speed. You thrive in a fast‑growing company where the roadmap evolves and ownership is real.
• You like to have fun at work. We take our craft seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. We celebrate wins, crack jokes, and genuinely enjoy building together.

Skills and Experience

• 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. It doesn't have to be OpenSearch or Elasticsearch specifically, but you understand how search works and how to make it better.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and React, with the full‑stack fluency to reason about the whole request path from UI to data.
• 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 — SLOs, incident response, and capacity planning are second nature.
• 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

Compensation

Additional Information

Join us in shaping the future of real estate

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Luxury Presence is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.