Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer (E5), you will serve as a technical leader within your squad, driving high-impact initiatives that shape the future of our systems and architecture. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals, while promoting a culture of engineering excellence.
In this role, you will influence the technical direction of projects, mentor engineers across the organization, and ensure that our systems are built with scalability, performance, and maintainability in mind.
What you will do as a Staff Software Engineer:

Lead the technical design and implementation of complex systems, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
Drive high-impact, cross-functional projects that align technical solutions with business goals.
Mentor engineers across the organization, sharing expertise and helping develop their technical and problem-solving skills.
Set the architectural direction for projects, defining patterns that improve system reliability and influence multiple teams.
Proactively identify technical opportunities to improve customer experience and contribute to product strategy.
Lead technical initiatives that improve efficiency, reduce risk, and foster innovation across the engineering organization.
Foster a culture of collaboration, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement through leadership in design and code reviews.
Drive organizational growth by leading workshops, knowledge-sharing sessions, and cross-team initiatives that elevate technical standards.

Our Technology Stack:

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

Qualifications:

8+ years of experience with web application frameworks such as Nodejs, React, Redux, Angular, Next or similar. GraphQL experience is a plus!
Experience with data-driven architecture and systems design, RESTful APIs, microservices architecture.
Proficiency utilizing SQL, NoSQL, in-memory and distributed SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, AuroraDB)
Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs, external frameworks, and libraries
Expert-level 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
Embraces the concepts of Agile Scrum software development and its related collaboration and issue tracking tools (e.g. Freshworks, JIRA, Rally)
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.)

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 50,000 agents 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.
The Los Angeles-based SaaS company raised $25.9 million for its Series B round and recently announced $19.2M Series B-1. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round alongside fellow existing investors Toba Capital and Switch Ventures. Former Dallas Mavericks basketball player Dirk Nowitzki also participated in the round, along with other angel investors.
Its solutions include stunning website design, an engaging home search tool, an agent-to-agent listing referral network, powerful content & SEO strategies, expert-lead social media management, and digital advertising for lead generation. In 2020, Luxury Presence was recognized as a Best Place to Work by BuiltinLA and by Inc. as the 322nd fastest growing private company in America and then again in 2021 — LP ranked 598th.