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

Preferred Qualifications

Who Thrives In This Role

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

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