# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Luxury Presence](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/luxury-presence)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, React, AWS, Kubernetes, GraphQL, Kafka, Postgres, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, LLMs, Microservices
**Posted:** 2026-07-10

> Staff Software Engineer leading AI-native platform architecture and product delivery for real estate SaaS. Requires 8+ years experience, daily AI usage (Claude), deep TypeScript/Node/React expertise, and cloud/microservices background to shape engineering standards and mentor teams.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Drive large-scale technical initiatives from concept through production, aligning architecture decisions with business goals.
- Ship AI-native product experiences leveraging LLMs, agent frameworks, and real-time data.
- Lead system design for critical platform capabilities including AI-powered site builder pipeline and multi-tenant infrastructure.
- Define engineering standards, review practices, developer tooling, and AI agent integration into workflows.
- Mentor engineers, raise the technical bar, coach through design problems, and influence career growth.

## What We're Looking For
**Attributes**
- Build with AI daily using Claude Code as a core part of workflow.
- Strong opinions (loosely held) on how AI changes software architecture, team structure, and engineering culture.
- Think in systems connecting technical decisions to customer outcomes and business value.
- Communicate complex tradeoffs clearly to product, design, and executive stakeholders.
- Thrive in ambiguity, speed, and fast-growing environments with real ownership.
- Enjoy collaborative, fun work culture.

**Skills and Experience**
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with time in senior or staff-level roles.
- Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
- Experience designing and operating scalable microservice architectures in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred).
- Strong understanding of GraphQL, event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS), and distributed databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch).
- Proven track record leading high-impact initiatives in a SaaS environment.
- Expert-level grasp of software design principles and multi-tenant platform architectures.

**Tech Stack**
- Frontend: React, Tailwind, Apollo
- Backend: Node/TypeScript Microservices
- Data: Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch
- Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Lambda, Temporal
- Messaging: Kafka, SQS

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