Engineering Manager, Search Team

The Opportunity

This is a critical and exciting time at Enigma. Customers are increasingly relying on us to help them find, match, and reason about businesses within complex and noisy datasets. As adoption grows, so does the need for a powerful, scalable, and intelligent search experience at the core of our product.

To meet this need, we are expanding our Search Team and investing deeply in our Search API. These systems sit at the heart of how customers interact with Enigma’s data by turning vague, imperfect requests into precise, high-quality results. 

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead this effort.

The Role

As the Engineering Manager for the Search Team, you will lead a team of Software Engineers and Data Scientists responsible for building and operating Enigma’s search platform. Your team will design and implement a search API that resolves customer requests against our existing entity graph using a combination of fast index lookups, ranking and matching models, and Python-based services. This includes everything from query understanding to performance and scalability. Your impact will be measured by the quality, reliability, and effectiveness of the search capabilities you deliver, as well as the technical excellence of the systems your team builds and maintains.

This is a hands-on leadership role: you will contribute directly to architecture, implementation, debugging, scaling, and ongoing evolution of our search systems.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and grow a team building Enigma’s Search API
• Architect and scale search systems that combine algorithmic approaches, machine-learning–driven ranking, and efficient indexing
• Set a high bar for code quality, testing, and operational excellence
• Contribute directly to feature development, bug fixes, performance improvements, and system reliability
• Mentor engineers and foster a strong sense of ownership and craftsmanship within the team

We’re Looking For Someone Who

• Inspires teammates to do their best work and builds a collaborative, supportive team culture
• Balances people leadership with deep technical involvement 
• Takes pride in writing highly readable, well-tested Python code
• Is comfortable working across containers, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code (we use Docker, AWS, and Terraform)
• Wears multiple hats: you will have broad responsibilities and will need to prioritize your focus among system architecture, software development, team organization, and mentorship

What Makes This Role Exciting?

• Technical Challenge: your team will build mission critical, scalable systems with low costs of ownership for a rapidly evolving product
• Impact: your leadership, technical ability, and decision making will have a direct impact on our customers and the success of our product

Our Ideal Candidate

• Has 8+ years of software engineering experience with 2+ years leading engineering teams
• Enjoys collaborating with cross-functional partners (product managers, data scientists, other engineers) to set clear expectations and solve common problems.
• Is driven to work with customers to have an impact on the real world

Bonus Points If You

• Have led teams working on search, recommendation, or ML-driven backend systems
• Have experience building SaaS data products at scale
• Have a strong track record of growing and mentoring engineers

About Us

At Enigma, we’re building the single, most reliable source of data on businesses to power the future of financial services. By engineering better data from hundreds of public and third-party sources, we aim to tell the complete story of every business, so that companies of every size can access the financial services they need to grow and thrive. Our core values – generosity, curiosity, ingenuity, & drive – guide everything we do, from how we make our most important product decisions to how we work with and support one another on a daily basis. We’re a team of curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds and skills, but we’re all passionate about engineering deeper understanding through data—together. If this resonates, we would love to hear from you!

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Salary Range: $210,000-$240,000

A note on salary ranges: we pride ourselves on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is one piece of a total Enigma compensation package that includes additional benefits and opportunities. All of our compensation packages include equity because we believe 100% of Enigma employees should have the option to purchase ownership in the company and benefit from the value we’re creating together.