Staff Software Engineer - Search & Maps - US (Remote)

Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Search & Maps team, you'll be a technical leader driving AI-powered product delivery and shaping platform architecture at Luxury Presence. This role is central to the company's mission of building with AI daily and defining what a next-generation engineering organization looks like.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and scale a high-throughput search platform handling 1.5B+ monthly requests and hundreds of millions of listings, optimizing for latency, relevance, and reliability across Kafka and Elasticsearch
• Deliver a world-class home search experience across web and mobile, improving engagement, lead conversion, and agent workflows while maintaining fast, responsive interactions at scale
• Build and evolve a highly reliable notifications platform delivering tens of millions of emails per month and SMS traffic, ensuring high deliverability and reliability
• Push forward AI-powered discovery experiences by collaborating with teams to integrate LLMs and intelligent ranking into search and user workflows
• Lead high-impact initiatives from concept through production, connecting technical decisions to customer outcomes and business value

Requirements

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

Attributes & Culture Fit

• You build with AI daily using Claude Code as a core workflow tool
• You have strong opinions about how AI changes software architecture and team structure
• You think in systems and connect technical decisions to business outcomes
• You communicate clearly with product, design, and executive stakeholders
• You thrive in fast-growing environments with evolving roadmaps and real ownership
• You balance taking your craft seriously while enjoying the team experience

Tech Stack

Frontend: React, Tailwind, Apollo Backend: Node/TypeScript Microservices Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Lambda, Temporal Messaging: Kafka, SQS