Manager, Search Engineering

Lucidworks

4d • $144,000 - $181,000

About The Position

As the Manager of the Search Engineering team, you will lead and support a globally distributed group of engineers responsible for delivering high-quality, customer-focused features. You’ll balance people leadership with technical stewardship: coaching engineers, fostering collaboration across time zones, and setting clear expectations while partnering closely with the team to design, build, and evolve reliable, scalable solutions that meet customer needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cloud software development, with expertise in GCP, Azure, and/or AWS
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership or managerial role, overseeing product-led, cloud-based software engineering teams
• 10+ years experience directly developing applications throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Experience developing microservice-based applications.
• Strong experience with containerization including Kubernetes
• Proven experience in managing large-scale distributed systems across multiple cloud environments
• Experience with SaaS infrastructure and deployment models
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in high-impact, fast-paced environments
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Acceptable background check
• Resourceful-willing to jump in, be agile/flexible, leverage existing resources to accomplish goals, ability to work independently
• Team player-confident in collaborating with a diverse community of people and personalities across geographies, backgrounds, and professional abilities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Empathy and care for all stakeholders of Lucidwork including employees, customers, partners, and guests
• Ability to handle confidential information

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Apache SOLR is a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance and strategic direction
• Drive innovation and automation in Search engineering to improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality products to customers
• Work closely with Product team to coordinate and prioritize work including project management (Agile/Scrum)
• Partner with Leadership and Product Operations to determine feature scope, project milestones, and achievable deadlines within our release cycle.
• Help the team understand the technical scope of requested work and how each task fits with project goals and priorities.
• Understand obstacles to individual and overall team success and develop plans to remove them.
• Contribute to and maintain technical processes, particularly in code repo management, test coverage metrics, and automated CI/CD and code quality gates.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in cloud engineering and search

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees