Senior Engineering Manager, Perchwell

• This is not a people-management-only role. We need someone who brings genuine technical depth, gets into the weeds when the team hits hard problems, and can hold the line technically while also building a team that scales
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 4-5 years managing engineers
• Strong backend systems experience - authentication, authorization, configuration, and data infrastructure at scale; frontend familiarity is a plus but backend depth is where you'll have the most immediate impact
• Fluency in one or more of Go, TypeScript, Python, Kotlin, or Ruby; familiarity with React is a bonus
• Technical depth sufficient to engage credibly with staff-level engineers on hard problems and contribute meaningfully to architectural decisions
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through both execution-focused delivery and open-ended technical problem solving
• Experience managing teams of 5-10 engineers, with comfort scaling toward that range
• Proven ability to operate with autonomy in fast-moving, high-ambiguity environments

Desirable

• Perchwell is expanding the engineering leadership behind our next-generation platform. We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead two teams simultaneously: a core platform team building the foundational infrastructure of the new platform, and a customer-facing feature team building the product layer that agents and brokerages interact with daily
• This is one of the most consequential roles on our engineering team right now - you'll have real ownership over both teams at a pivotal moment, as we build against aggressive timelines and scale the organization around a platform that doesn't yet exist anywhere else in the industry
• Own engineering leadership across two teams - core platform and customer-facing features - with full accountability for delivery, team health, and technical direction
• Lead, mentor, and grow engineers through coaching, feedback, and hands-on technical guidance
• Contribute meaningfully to technical problem solving, particularly around backend systems; this is an actively hands-on role, not a management-from-a-distance one
• Drive execution against defined deliverables while helping the team work through open architectural questions that don't yet have clean answers
• Balance planned roadmap work with reactive needs while maintaining clear priorities, expectations, and momentum for the team
• Strengthen engineering processes including code quality, release readiness, and consistent execution
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and other cross-functional stakeholders to align on requirements, scope, and sequencing early in the process
• Hire and onboard additional engineers across both teams
• Build and sustain a team culture grounded in humility, curiosity, and high standards