Search Engineering Manager

Meytier, a dynamic, high-impact job platform headquartered in New York. We partner with Fortune 500 companies, PE/VC firms, and fast-growing startups to help them discover and hire exceptional talent.

This is a high-impact career opportunity for a Engineer Manager – Search & Discovery with one of our technology clients, The world’s leading marketplace and auction services platform, with revolutionizing the $15B+ global auction industry, connecting millions of buyers and sellers worldwide and driving sustainable growth in the circular economy.

Engineering Manager - Search & Discovery

Some problems we are working on in the search domain:

● How to make search results and suggestions relevant to our users?

● How to ensure our systems are stable and performant?

● How do we improve ranking of search results?

● How do we reduce zero result rate for search queries? and many more such questions...

Your Mission

Make the search experience frictionless for our users

● Define and drive engineering excellence

● Own end to end delivery of team's projects

● Ensure continued service reliability, and timely technical support for all stakeholders

● Collaborate with Product, Analytics and AI to define and drive product roadmap

● Manage career development of people in the team through continuous coaching and mentoring

Responsibilities

● Partner with stakeholders to deeply understand their priorities and translate them into clear technical strategies.

● Balance partner needs by designing solutions that advance user-facing experiences while ensuring system scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

● Oversee the delivery of end-to-end improvements in search quality, spanning data pipelines, ML models, and distributed systems.

● Drive the adoption of advanced ML methods while ensuring pragmatic, production-ready implementations.

● Grow, mentor, and develop a diverse team of engineers, fostering collaboration with applied scientists and system experts.

● Provide technical and organizational leadership, ensuring execution excellence while crafting a long-term strategy for search and knowledge systems.

What you need to be successful

● 2+ years experience of leading a cross-functional team as an Engineering Manager

● Bachelor/ Master’s degree or equivalent in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Similar

● Proven background in Machine Learning, NLP, and large-scale Search, with the ability to guide teams at the forefront of these fields. Familiarity with vector search, hybrid retrieval (lexical + semantic), and personalization techniques will be a strong plus.

● Deep expertise in retrieval and ranking models and the broader search stack, with a track record of delivering production-quality systems at scale.

● Comfortable with ambiguity and able to navigate it to solve problems. Ability to break a problem into manageable tasks and establish clear goals for the team

● Effective communication and ability to explain complex work in simple terms to team members, stakeholders and senior leadership

● Be a role model for other Engineers in the team and help establish a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation

● Proven expertise in stakeholder management and fostering strong relationships.

● Excellent business understanding to drive informed engineering decisions