Senior Backend Engineer (Canada) (x/f/m)

by Luxury Presence in Canada

Engineering

January 29, 2024

Luxury Presence is the fastest-growing digital platform for agents, teams, and brokerages. Their award-winning real estate websites, modern marketing solutions, and AI-powered mobile platform help agents attract more business, work more efficiently, and serve their clients. Since launching in 2016, Luxury Presence has been trusted by more than 10,000 real estate professionals, including over 20 Wall Street Journal Top 100 agents.

Who is the Platform Squad?

The Platform squad is a new squad being formed to support our product squads. This squad owns critical service implementations such as Authentication/Authorization in addition to user-facing pieces of our applications like our CMS and our React component library. Teams such as Website Product will regularly interact with Platform and rely on their APIs and packages.

What you will do as a Sr. Backend Engineer:

Design, build, test, and deploy the cloud-native platform and microservices/API to be consumed by our platform and clients
Partner with architecture and external development teams to design reusable frameworks and technical solutions
Partner with Frontend Developers to create new user-facing features and build reusable code and libraries for future use
Participate in the evaluation of emerging technology and tools
Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
Conduct code reviews for peers and mentor junior Engineers
Iterate on our framework for rendering and building a common of libraries and components
Participate in squad ceremonies and team events (lunch & learn, brainstorms, etc.)

Skills And Qualifications:

5+ year experience developing backend web applications. Bonus points for experience with TypeScript on NodeJS
Experience with data-driven architecture and systems design, RESTful APIs, microservices architecture. Test Driven Development experience is a plus!
Strong experience in designing optimal system integration with data persistence layers, including use of ORMs, SQL and APIs to interact with RDBMS, NoSQL and other data storage systems
Experienced working with enterprise frameworks like Spring Boot, .net Core or equivalent with a solid understanding of concepts like dependency injection
Strong understanding and implementation of cloud-native architectures (AWS serverless or containers preferred) at scale in production
Demonstrated understanding and implementation of software design principles such as SOLID and DI
Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS), multi-tenancy application development
Experience working in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD) model, including Github and CI pipeline automation tools
Proven success working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)

Our Technology Stack:

React / StyledComponents / Apollo / SingleSPA
Node/Typescript Microservices
Python ETLs
Postgres / ElasticSearch / DynamoDB
AWS / Kubernetes / Lambda

Interview Process:

We do a quick, 3 step, fully virtual interview process.
1st – Engineering Craft Interview (Deep Dive Technical) – 1 Hour
2nd – Engineering Craft Interview (Technical Breadth) – 1 Hour
3rd – Culture & Values Interview – 1 Hour

Who we are: Luxury Presence is the real estate industry’s most powerful marketing platform, providing award winning websites and cutting edge tech to the world’s top agents.

Founded in 2016 by Stanford Business School alumni Malte Kramer, Luxury Presence currently serves over 9,000 clients in the U.S. and Canada with its SaaS model — including over 20 of the top 100 WSJ real estate agents and teams. In addition, Luxury Presence is the official website partner to some of the industry’s most powerful brokerages.