Engineering Manager - Data Infrastructure

Who we are:

Perchwell is the premier workflow software and data  platform for residential real estate. Based on the industry’s foundational data, Perchwell builds a modern software suite to empower real estate professionals to do their best work, provide differentiated service to their clients, and grow their businesses.

Backed by Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and some of the country’s leading MLSs, Perchwell is scaling its best-in-class platform to have a positive impact on the industry we serve.

Perchwell is growing our team to build the workflow data platform for all residential real estate, a $4T industry (roughly 17% of US GDP) impacting the lives of every single American. As a complete market intelligence, search, and collaboration solution, we partner with forward-thinking MLS (Multiple Listing Service) organizations and brokerages to drive the industry forward.

What we're looking for

• Manager who can lead a technical team to build new product capabilities

• Expertise in planning, processes, and people management

• Ability to deliver projects in a timely manner

• Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Professional experience building software products at scale

What you’ll do

• Lead software development teams as People Manager and Tech Lead of 2-6 people within Perchwell. 

• Build out ETL tooling and data pipelines, consuming data into our system from 3rd party data sources and APIs

• Build out team processes and culture around ownership and accountability

• Project manage competing priorities and multiple streams of work

• Partner with Data Analyst team that will act as partner team to conduct analysis, dashboards, and quality assessments

• Continue to build the Perchwell engineering organization by helping to recruit great people

Required for the role

• 5+ years experience of software development using Python, Ruby, Java, SQL

• 3+ years data processing experience

• 1+ year of management experience

• Experience building data pipelines

• Team performance management experience

• Product development processes and best practices, including code quality, bug prioritization, code refactoring, and documentation

• Hiring and team development

• Team execution and deliverables

• Agile project management

• Good communication to different stakeholders

• Prior success as an individual contributor software engineer. You are technical.

Bonus points for the following

• Ruby on Rails experience

• Training in giving feedback and leadership development

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