Senior Software Developer (Remote)
Engel & Völkers is a global luxury brand specializing in residential and commercial real estate, and yachting. Founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1977, Engel & Völkers now includes over 1,000 brokerages in 35 countries across five continents. Engel & Völkers in the Americas supports a network of premium residential real estate brokerages throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean and is responsible for the firm’s ongoing expansion in additional markets.
Engel & Völkers Canada is hiring a Senior Software Developer to own and evolve internal platform applications across our real estate ecosystem. This is a hands-on senior role with meaningful technical ownership: you will maintain mature production systems.
This is a strong fit for an AI-first, engineering-grounded developer who is comfortable learning unfamiliar code, improving it thoughtfully, and balancing pragmatic delivery with long-term consistency. You should be excited about TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, AWS Lambda-based systems, and the opportunity to mentor teammates while helping create more shared technical standards.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
- Own and improve internal applications that support property/listing workflows, approvals, knowledge management, AI-assisted tooling, reporting, administration, and related platform capabilities.
- Build and maintain TypeScript/Node.js backends, API layers, and server-rendered applications using patterns such as NestJS/Fastify, Next.js, Astro/SvelteKit, and AWS Lambda.
- Contribute to our Next.js/Turborepo platform, including shared React UI, auth helpers, schemas, reference data, test tooling, deployment scripts, and developer experience.
- Work across AWS and data infrastructure including Lambda, API Gateway-style APIs, Amplify, AppSync, DynamoDB, S3, SSM, EventBridge, CloudWatch, ECS/Fargate, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, and Dynamoose.
- Maintain integrations with authentication services, listings APIs, knowledge base APIs, email workflows, analytics, search, Google Places, and AWS Bedrock-backed AI features.
- Help reduce single-person knowledge risk by documenting, simplifying, improving CI/CD/testing, and partnering with product and engineering leadership on pragmatic technical decisions.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with senior-level ownership of production systems.
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills, with comfort working from frontend components through backend services and infrastructure.
- Strong React and Next.js experience, including SSR/server components, API/client data boundaries, shared component systems, and modern frontend tooling.
- AI-first development mindset with real engineering depth: you use tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar, but can independently debug, design, test, review, and verify correctness.
- Experience with AWS-backed applications, especially Lambda/serverless patterns, S3, DynamoDB, SSM/secrets, CloudWatch, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Practical experience with databases, API contracts, runtime validation, authentication, authorization, and secure secret handling.
- Comfort maintaining mature systems that may use different patterns than the new platform, including server-rendered UIs, web components, and older deployment models.
- Clear communication, low ego, high ownership, strong testing instincts, and leadership potential: you can mentor, influence architecture, create alignment, and work from shared standards while staying pragmatic.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience with AWS Amplify Gen 2, AppSync GraphQL, EventBridge scheduled jobs, CDK, SST, or Serverless Framework.
- Experience with NestJS, Fastify, Astro, SvelteKit, HTMX, Lit web components, or Web Components generally.
- Experience with Turborepo or other TypeScript monorepos, shared package design, affected-app CI/CD, Drizzle ORM, Dynamoose, and typed schema/codegen workflows.
- Real estate technology, listings/MLS data, brokerage operations, marketplace/platform experience, or prior small-team ownership of ambiguous work.
WHY JOIN US
- Fully remote, Canada-based role with a flexible working environment.
- Small senior team where your work has visible impact, broad ownership, and room to help shape how the team operates.
- Direct reporting line to the VP of Engineering and meaningful influence on technical direction.
- Real production systems to own, not just greenfield prototypes.
- Active investment in a modern TypeScript, Next.js, AWS-native platform with shared tooling, serverless services, and developer experience.
- Opportunity to grow into broader technical leadership as the platform and responsibilities evolve.
The compensation will be from $145,000 to $170,000 CAD annually. Do you feel that you are the right individual to accept and succeed in this position? We are looking forward to receiving your application.
At Engel & Völkers we strive to build diverse teams and are committed to equal employment opportunity welcoming and considering qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, gender identity, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or any other group protected by law.
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