Senior Engineering Manager

Who We Are
Perchwell is the modern real estate listings platform built for agents to search smarter, collaborate better, and close deals faster. We are building the future of residential real estateʼs critical listings infrastructure: a platform where market  research and client collaboration converge. Our modern architecture enables continuous innovation at a pace legacy systems cannot match, with AI-powered features and mobile-first capabilities designed for how agents actually work.

As consumer expectations and technology evolve, Perchwell remains focused on our core vision:  empowering real estate professionals with the most intelligent, data-driven, and connected platform in the industry. Backed by leading venture capital firms including Lux Capital and Founders Fund, along with strategic partnerships with some of the country's top Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), Perchwell represents the first major new platform to enter the listings technology market in decades. This unique combination of institutional investment and deep industry alignment provides both the resources and market validation needed to transform the multi-trillion dollar residential real estate industry.

What We’re Looking For
Perchwell is expanding the engineering leadership behind our next-generation platform. We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead two teams simultaneously: a core platform team building the foundational infrastructure of the new platform, and a customer-facing feature team building the product layer that agents and brokerages interact with daily. This is one of the most consequential roles on our engineering team right now - you'll have real ownership over both teams at a pivotal moment, as we build against aggressive timelines and scale the organization around a platform that doesn't yet exist anywhere else in the industry.

This is not a people-management-only role. We need someone who brings genuine technical depth, gets into the weeds when the team hits hard problems, and can hold the line technically while also building a team that scales.

What You’ll Do
Own engineering leadership across two teams - core platform and customer-facing features - with full accountability for delivery, team health, and technical direction

Lead, mentor, and grow engineers through coaching, feedback, and hands-on technical guidance

Contribute meaningfully to technical problem solving, particularly around backend systems; this is an actively hands-on role, not a management-from-a-distance one

Drive execution against defined deliverables while helping the team work through open architectural questions that don't yet have clean answers

Balance planned roadmap work with reactive needs while maintaining clear priorities, expectations, and momentum for the team

Strengthen engineering processes including code quality, release readiness, and consistent execution

Collaborate closely with product, design, and other cross-functional stakeholders to align on requirements, scope, and sequencing early in the process

Hire and onboard additional engineers across both teams

Build and sustain a team culture grounded in humility, curiosity, and high standards

Required For The Role
8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 4-5 years managing engineers

Strong backend systems experience - authentication, authorization, configuration, and data infrastructure at scale; frontend familiarity is a plus but backend depth is where you'll have the most immediate impact

Fluency in one or more of Go, TypeScript, Python, Kotlin, or Ruby; familiarity with React is a bonus

Technical depth sufficient to engage credibly with staff-level engineers on hard problems and contribute meaningfully to architectural decisions

Demonstrated ability to lead teams through both execution-focused delivery and open-ended technical problem solving

Experience managing teams of 5-10 engineers, with comfort scaling toward that range

Proven ability to operate with autonomy in fast-moving, high-ambiguity environments

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with GCP or comparable cloud infrastructure

Real estate or proptech background

Hands-on experience with authentication and authorization systems at scale

Background in organizations that scaled engineering teams rapidly

Who Thrives In This Role
Technically credible and willing to prove it: comfortable engaging with staff-level engineers on hard problems without needing to be the expert in every room

Humble and self-aware: this team is full of genuinely smart people, and the best candidates will find that energizing rather than threatening

Disciplined and quality-minded: you prefer long-term solutions over short-term patches and bring order to fast-moving, high-volume environments

Curious and self-directed: you have a demonstrated pattern of diving into unfamiliar domains and getting up to speed fast

Customer-obsessed and outcome-driven: you're energized by building for real users with urgent needs and hold yourself accountable to results, not just effort

Highly collaborative, especially with non-engineering teams: you understand that the best outcomes come from tight cross-functional partnerships

Salary Range:
The compensation for this position is $200-$255K base salary + equity + benefits.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. Our ranges are based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills, job-related knowledge and depth of work experience. 

Benefits
Flexible PTO, plus 10 paid company holidays

401K with a company match

Medical, dental, and vision plans

HSA and FSA options

Commuter benefits

Parental leave

Company-wide onsite or offsite each year

Beautiful office in Soho, Manhattan with a stocked kitchen, catered breakfast and lunch once per week, happy hours and meet-ups

Note: At this time, we are only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the U.S.