Luxury Presence is the leading digital platform revolutionizing the real estate industry for agents, teams, and brokerages. Our award-winning websites, cutting-edge marketing solutions, and AI-powered mobile platform empower real estate professionals to grow their business, operate more efficiently, and deliver exceptional service to their clients. Trusted by over 60,000 real estate professionals, including 31 of the nation’s 100 top-performing agents as published in the Wall Street Journal, Luxury Presence continues to set the standard for innovation and excellence in real estate technology
Role Overview
As a Staff Software Engineer focusing on our “Activity Firehose,” you’ll be at the center of building a real-time, high-volume data pipeline that captures key buyer intent signals for our real estate clients. You’ll partner with Product, Data, and other Engineering teams to ingest, process, and surface actionable user activities (e.g., property views, saved searches, email opens) at scale. In this role, you will set technical direction for our event-driven architecture, ensure data reliability and security, and drive best practices that empower our organization to leverage user insights more effectively.
What You’ll Do
1. Architect & Own the Activity Firehose
• Build a high-volume event ingestion pipeline that collects user activity signals (e.g., email opens, listing views) across multiple sources such as web and mobile products and SendGrid.
• Define and maintain data models and schemas to power real-time insights into buyer intent, enabling product teams to quickly act on user behaviors.
2. Drive Event-Driven Best Practices
• Implement scalable streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka or similar) to handle large data volumes with low latency and high reliability.
• Champion data governance and standardization, setting guidelines for event naming conventions, payload formats, and documentation.
3. Mentor & Influence
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, promoting high coding standards, robust testing, and performance optimizations.
• Influence architectural and technical roadmaps, aligning engineering efforts with strategic business goals and buyer intent initiatives.
4. Ensure Reliability & Observability
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for data pipelines, establishing clear SLAs and enabling rapid incident response.
• Proactively address privacy and security concerns, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and data protection best practices.
5. Collaborate Cross-Functionally
• Partner with Product and Data teams to prioritize which user activities to track, how to measure success, and how to surface insights effectively.
• Work with stakeholders to define KPIs and success metrics around user engagement and buyer intent signals, regularly iterating on approaches based on data-driven feedback.
Our Technology Stack
- Front-End: React, Styled Components, Apollo, SingleSPA
- Back-End & Services: Node, TypeScript microservices, Python ETLs
- Databases: Postgres, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, Iceberg
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Lambda, Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, Airflow
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience building scalable web applications and services, with an emphasis on real-time data pipelines.
- Deep expertise in event-driven architectures, streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka), and microservices—plus an ability to integrate with 3rd-party APIs and data sources.
- Proven track record of designing and deploying high-volume, high-availability systems, leveraging AWS (Kubernetes, Lambda, etc.) or comparable cloud infrastructure.
- Strong proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases (Postgres, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch), including schema design for large-scale data ingestion and retrieval.
- Hands-on experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, or similar) to maintain system health and performance.
- Familiarity with front-end ecosystems (React, etc.) is a plus—enough to guide how event instrumentation and data capture integrate with user-facing products.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a history of mentoring engineers, driving cross-functional initiatives, and influencing technical roadmaps.
- Comfortable with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and related collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence), emphasizing rapid iteration and continuous improvement.
Join us in shaping the future of real estate
The real estate industry is in the midst of a seismic shift, and the future belongs to those who break new ground. As one of the fastest-growing companies in the proptech and marketing sectors, Luxury Presence challenges the status quo of what technology can do for real estate agents, leaders, and brokerages.
We’re a team of agile and tenacious innovators working collaboratively to drive the industry forward. Together, we build game-changing products that empower modern real estate entrepreneurs to dominate their markets. From award-winning web design to agile SEO solutions to cutting-edge AI tools, we deliver tech that anticipates market shifts and keeps our clients ahead of their competition.
Founded in 2016 by Stanford Business School alum Malte Kramer, Luxury Presence has grown to a global team ranked on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list three years in a row. We’re backed by world-class investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Toba Capital, and Switch Ventures, and have raised $52.6 million to date.
More than 13,000 real estate businesses rely on our platform, including 31 of the RealTrends top 100 agents featured in The Wall Street Journal. Additionally, many of the industry’s most powerful brokerages — including Compass, Coldwell Banker, and Sotheby’s International Realty — rely on Luxury Presence as a trusted business partner.
Every year since 2020, Luxury Presence has ranked on BuiltIn’s Best Place to Work lists. HousingWire named our founder and CEO a 2024 Tech Trendsetter, we’ve received several Tech100 Awards, and our lead nurturing tool just scored an Inman Innovation Award for Best AI-Powered Platform.
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.
