Luxury Presence is the fastest-growing digital platform for agents, teams, and brokerages. Our 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.

Team: Engineering / Platform

Title: Sr. Backend Engineer (SWE II)

Location: US-Remote

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.

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. 

Luxury Presence is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.