Engineering Manager
$175k - $235k USD
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 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 full stack technical experience including React, JavaScript or TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and a preference for Ruby on Rails
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.