Job Details

Vacancy Name
Engineering Manager- Search & Discovery

Vacancy No
VN276

Status
Active

Location
Remote US

Location Country
United States

Location Region

Location City

Description
Who are we?

Auction Technology Group (ATG) is transforming the multi-billion-dollar global auction industry. Our platforms connect thousands of auction houses with buyers in over 170 countries, powering more than $15 billion in annual sales. Through innovative online auction technologies, we help auctioneers expand their reach, boost efficiency, and maximize value-while giving bidders unrivaled access to rare and specialized items. As a publicly traded company, ATG has scaled from $18 million to $170 million in revenue, with sustained growth beyond the pandemic. We're modernizing one of the last industries to fully go digital-building a global, category-defining business in the process.

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?

Key Responsibilities
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.

Key Requirements
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

Employment Type
Permanent

Duration

Business Name
Proxibid

Function Name
Technology