Engineering Manager, Search

Front is the leading AI-powered customer service platform built for collaboration. Front brings core support channels into a modern, intuitive workspace where teams can collaborate on requests, automate manual processes, and delight customers across their entire lifecycle. Front’s flexible workflows, AI features, and customer intelligence provide the efficiency and insights to keep entire organizations customer-first, every day. More than 9,000 of the most innovative companies worldwide including CultureAmp, HootSuite, and Y Combinator use Front to deliver five-star service at scale.

Backed by Sequoia Capital and Salesforce Ventures, Front has raised $204M from leading venture capital firms and independent investors including top executives at Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, Zoom, and PagerDuty. Front has received numerous Great Place to Work accolades, including Built In's 100 Best Midsize Places to Work in SF 2025, Top Places to Work by USA Today 2025, Y Combinator's list of Top Companies in 2023, #4 on Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ ,Inc. Magazine's 2022 Best Workplaces list, and Forbes Best Startup Employers 2022 List.

At Front, our search stack powers intelligent features and algorithms that help surface the most relevant results to users all across the product, improving product navigation, usability and delightfulness. We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to manage Front's core search team based in Paris. To be successful in this role, you will manage a senior team of talented engineers to deliver on an ambitious roadmap, lean in on technical design and implementation, scale the team by attracting and hiring talented engineers as well as coaching future engineering leaders, and obsess about making the teams and their processes scale efficiently. This is a very collaborative role where you will partner closely with product managers, analysts, designers, researchers, and engineering managers in Paris and San Francisco.

What will you be doing?

• Partner cross-functionally with Product and Design to innovate and execute product initiatives across the company

• Bring your search expertise to the team, working with them to transform ideas into features, and improve the search experience for thousands of customers

• Obsess about the architectural design, implementation, and quality of the work your teams produce

• Grow your teams by coaching developing engineers and by attracting and hiring top talent

• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Front’s engineering management team

What makes this role interesting?

• You’ll run the engineering team responsible for the search experience of Front, a product used by over 7,000 companies.

• Our Elasticsearch clusters house 120 TB of production data, serve 650M of search queries per day, and process 465M indexing queries per day

• Help us continue to build a diverse team and an inclusive culture based on our core values.

• Build for highly engaged users. Customers spend an average of 2.5 hours a day in Front, and 72% of Front’s monthly active users are daily active users - that’s higher even top social media companies!

What skills and experience do you need?Effectively recruited, mentored, and retained top talent2+ years of industry experience leading teams that build highly available, large-scale distributed search systems at a large-scale internet serviceStrong track record of running teams that deliver projects of significant complexity and high levels of ambiguityA strong product mindset and the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, low-ego and high-growth environment; you work well with all kinds of personalities and with teams across multiple geographiesClear, structured thinking and excellent communication skillsIndustry experience building fast, reliable, real-time web-based applicationsKnowledgeable about modern web technologies and excited to learn new ones, e.g. React, ES6, Babel, Electron

Front operates on a hybrid model — we come together in the office each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to collaborate and stay connected.

What we offer

• Competitive salary

• Equity (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)

• Fully covered private health insurance

• Paid parental leave 

• Generous paid time off

• Flexibility to work from home Mondays and Fridays (unless posted as a full-remote role)

• Mental health support with Workplace Options

• Family planning support with Maven

• 75 Euro per month Lifestyle Stipend to spend on fitness, health and wellness, and other activities

• Winter Break - Our offices are closed from Christmas to New Year's Day!

Front provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and understand the California Recruiting Privacy Notice & EU Privacy Notice