Jobgether
Engineering Manager, Maps & Search
Canada
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
TypeScriptReactNode.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewPostgreSQLElasticsearchAWSKubernetesGraphQLKafkaLLMsIncident ResponseComplianceLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- This role combines technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and people management in a fast-growing technology environment.
- The position offers the opportunity to shape AI-powered discovery experiences and influence how users interact with complex data at scale.
- This is an opportunity to help define the future of intelligent search and scalable software development.
Responsibilities
- This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps.
- Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager, Maps & Search based in the Canada.
- The Engineering Manager, Maps & Search will lead a high-impact engineering team responsible for building and scaling a world-class search experience across web and mobile platforms.
- You will work closely with product, design, and engineering teams to define strategy, solve challenging technical problems, and deliver meaningful customer outcomes.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team through hiring, onboarding, coaching, feedback, and career development.
- Maintain a hands-on approach by contributing to architecture discussions, code reviews, technical decisions, debugging, and complex engineering challenges.
- Own the architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance of a high-throughput search platform handling significant traffic volumes.
- Drive improvements across search relevance, ranking, retrieval, latency, and overall user experience.
- Define technical roadmaps in partnership with product and design teams, translating business objectives into scalable engineering solutions.
- Lead initiatives from concept through production, ensuring quality, reliability, operational excellence, and successful delivery.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant senior or staff-level experience.
- 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams and developing high-performing engineers.
- Proven experience leading teams responsible for search, relevance, ranking, retrieval, or discovery systems.
- Strong understanding of search technologies and concepts, including indexing, ranking, performance optimization, and user intent.
- Deep expertise with TypeScript, Node.js, and React, with strong full-stack understanding across frontend and backend systems.
- Experience designing and operating scalable microservice architectures in cloud-native environments.
- Strong knowledge of GraphQL, event-driven architectures, Kafka, databases, and distributed systems.
- Experience working with technologies such as PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, AWS, Kubernetes, Lambda, and Redis.
- Proven ability to operate high-traffic, low-latency production systems with strong understanding of SLOs, incident management, and capacity planning.
- Experience delivering high-impact technical initiatives from strategy through production within SaaS or technology-driven environments.
Compensation
- Competitive compensation package based on experience and qualifications.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on highly visible products serving a large and growing user base.
- Foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on innovation, ownership, and continuous learning.
Company info
- We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements.
- Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company.
- The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
- We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
- Why Apply Through Jobgether?
Equal opportunity
- Equal opportunity workplace committed to building diverse and inclusive teams.
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