Engineering Manager

Perchwell Engineering Manager

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 estate's 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 one of our highest impact product areas: the New York market. This team builds the features, workflows, and internal tooling that power some of our most active and business critical customers, specifically NYC brokerages and agencies. We're looking for an Engineering Manager who can lead, level up, and inspire this group.

In this role, you'll manage a small, high ownership full stack team responsible for delivering new features to the NYC market, adapting existing capabilities from other markets, and improving the reliability and quality of our platform. You'll be hands-on about 30 percent of the time, contributing meaningful code while actively mentoring engineers in best practices, clean architecture, and disciplined execution.

You'll also lean into product thinking by partnering with your product manager and other cross functional stakeholders, clarifying requirements, shaping scope, and ensuring the team focuses on the needs of NYC brokerages and agencies. You'll help the team balance reactive inbound requests with more strategic project work, creating clarity, structure, and momentum in a fast moving environment.

What You'll Do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high performing team through coaching, feedback, and technical guidance
• Contribute hands on code approximately 30 percent of the time while modeling strong engineering craftsmanship
• Own delivery of NYC market features, including adapting capabilities from other regions and addressing the existing market backlog
• Balance reactive inbound requests with planned roadmap work while maintaining clear priorities and expectations
• Collaborate closely with Customer Success and cross functional stakeholders to refine requirements and maintain tight feedback loops
• Strengthen engineering processes including code quality, release readiness, and consistent execution
• Begin building internal tooling and taking on additional product surface area as the team matures and capacity grows

Required For The Role

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with at least 1 year of managing engineers
• Strong technical experience with Ruby on Rails, React, JavaScript or TypeScript, PostgreSQL
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior and mid level engineers and foster healthy engineering habits
• Experience owning production systems and delivering features end to end
• Comfort working closely with non-engineering partners and navigating a fast moving, high ambiguity environment
• Strong product instincts with the ability to partner effectively with dedicated PM support

Preferred Qualifications

• Background contributing to or leading internal tooling efforts
• Real estate industry experience
• Elasticsearch expertise
• Training in leadership development or structured feedback
• Experience in small, high ownership engineering teams

Who Thrives In This Role

• Disciplined and quality minded, preferring long term solutions over short term patches
• Customer obsessed and energized by building for real users with urgent needs
• Detail oriented and able to bring order to a fast paced, high volume environment
• Highly collaborative, especially with non engineering teams such as Customer Success
• Outcome driven with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Growth oriented with the potential to scale alongside the team

Salary Information

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.

The compensation for this position is $175K-$235K base salary + equity + benefits

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.