Job Description
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a squad responsible for one of the foundational search components of our customer search experience.
Lead & Grow a High-Performing Squad
1. Own team health, engagement, and inclusion, ensuring every engineer has growth opportunities and clear career paths.
2. Develop engineers through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, clear expectations, and performance management.
3. Hire and onboard talent with strong backend and search infrastructure skills, while contributing to domain-wide recruiting efforts.
Own Technical and Delivery Outcomes
4. Experience delivering Conversational Search or LLM-powered search interfaces.
5. Lead your team in delivering high-quality, maintainable services in a Java
6. Ensure reliable sprint execution, proactive risk management, and transparent stakeholder communication. Manage cross-squad dependencies.
Drive Operational Excellence
7. Maintain the reliability of services through robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
8. Ensure on-call readiness, runbooks, and blameless post-mortems are part of the squad's culture.
9. Continuously improve delivery and operational health: cycle time, deployment frequency, safe reindexing rollouts, and relevance regression detection.
Partner with Product & Data Science to Deliver Impact
10. Translate product discovery goals and relevance targets into actionable engineering work with clear priorities.
11. Collaborate with Data Science on experiments and A/B tests to measure relevance improvements (MRR, NDCG, click-through rates).
12. Keep the squad aligned with business objectives and user value—ensuring improvements translate into measurable customer impact.
Qualifications
We are looking for a candidate with strong leadership experience and a solid understanding of search and LLM systems.
Strong People Leadership: You have experience mentoring engineers, fostering inclusion, giving structured feedback, and building a positive, productive team environment. You know how to grow engineers into senior technical roles and create a culture of ownership.
Search Technical Fluency: You are comfortable working with backend engineers in Go, Java, or Python who build search infrastructure. You understand the fundamentals of search—inverted indexes, vector search, query parsing, relevance scoring—well enough to guide your team's architectural choices, review designs, and make sound engineering trade-offs. Experience with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, vector databases (, Qdrant), or similar search technologies is a strong plus.
Delivery & Operational Maturity: You know how to run a predictable delivery process, manage cross-team dependencies, and ensure service reliability for low-latency, high-throughput systems. You are experienced with monitoring, on-call practices, and incident management—and you understand what it takes to safely roll out changes, and detect regressions in production.