Engineering Manager — AI-Powered Maps & Search

Devconnectplatform; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxury Presence in the US is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Maps & Search team, owning hiring, onboarding, coaching, and career development while staying hands-on with code and reviews.

You will shape a high-throughput real estate search platform, drive architecture, latency, and reliability for ~1B monthly requests, and advance AI-powered discovery with product and design to deliver end-to-end impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful senior or staff-level time
• Strong background in search, relevance, ranking, or retrieval systems
• Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and React, with full-stack understanding of 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)
• Proven track record of operating high-traffic, low-latency production systems at scale (SLOs, incident response)
• Experience leading high-impact SaaS initiatives from concept to production

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Maps & Search team, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, and career development
• Stay hands-on with code reviews, architecture decisions, and debugging to guide the team
• Own and scale a high-throughput search platform handling ~1B monthly requests and hundreds of millions of listings
• Deliver a world-class home search experience across web and mobile, improving engagement and conversions
• Push forward AI-powered discovery by integrating LLMs and intelligent ranking into search and user workflows

Skills

Leadership

Search systems

TypeScript

Node.js

React

AWS

GraphQL

Kafka

Tools

PostgreSQL

OpenSearch

Kafka

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Luxury Presence in the US is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Maps & Search team, owning hiring, onboarding, coaching, and career development while staying hands-on with code and reviews.

You will shape a high-throughput real estate search platform, drive architecture, latency, and reliability for ~1B monthly requests, and advance AI-powered discovery with product and design to deliver end-to-end impact.