Job Title: Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Sr. SDET)
About Us
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.
What You Will Do as a Sr. SDET:
As an SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) at Luxury Presence, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our web and mobile applications. You will help maintain and improve our automated testing framework, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that new features are robust and meet our high-quality standards.
You will be a key player in the software development lifecycle, driving quality across all aspects of our product. From building out and maintaining automated tests to managing and improving our CI/CD pipeline, your contributions will directly impact the success of our platform and its users.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and execute automated tests for web and mobile applications to ensure high-quality code and seamless user experiences.
- Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks and tools.
- Support and maintain our CI/CD pipeline, ensuring that automated tests are seamlessly integrated into the development process.
- Work closely with engineers to understand new features and ensure they are thoroughly tested before deployment.
- Identify areas of improvement in our testing and development workflows and implement solutions.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to understand testing requirements and deliver solutions that align with project goals.
- Monitor and manage bugs and issues discovered through automated tests and ensure they are promptly addressed.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest testing tools and methodologies to improve testing efficiency.
What You Will Need to Be Successful:
- 5+ years of experience as an SDET or in a similar QA automation role.
- Proficiency with test automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Playwright, or others.
- Experience building test automation repositories from the scratch,
- Experience addressing QA hard problems (reliability, parallelization, scaling and reporting),
- Experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab, or CircleCI.
- Solid programming experience in JavaScript, Typescript, or similar languages.
- Strong experience with React, GraphQL, and Apollo for web and mobile applications.
- Expertise in writing and running automated tests across different layers of applications (unit tests, integration tests, E2E tests).
- Familiarity with testing multiple platforms such as web and mobile (iOS and Android) applications.
- Knowledge of API testing (REST and GraphQL).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a strong attention to detail.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to present technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Our Technology Stack:
- Frontend: React, GraphQL, Apollo
- Backend: Node.js, Typescript, Microservices
- Database: Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB
- Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes, Lambda
- Testing: Playwright, Jest, Maestro
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, ArgoCD
Nice to Haves:
- Experience utilizing AI Tools to accelerate quality assurance impact in a production product.
- Familiarity with GraphQL and Apollo Client.
- Experience with cloud-native testing tools and methodologies (AWS, Kubernetes).
- Experience with React Native for mobile testing with exposure to testing mobile apps, especially using Maestro or similar tools.
Interview Process:
We follow a simple, 3-step interview process designed to assess your skills and fit for the role:
1. QA Craft Interview – We'll evaluate your problem-solving abilities and technical approach to QA challenges.
2. QA Deep Technical Interview – A deep dive into your technical expertise, especially in automation and testing tools.
3. Culture and Values Interview – An opportunity to get to know you better, discuss our values, and see how you’d fit with our team culture.
About the Flagship Product Group:
The Flagship group is responsible for our core products, including our Website Builder, Render Engine, and Website Hosting Architecture. The team focuses on making it easy for real estate professionals to create customizable websites while maintaining high performance at scale. Our team is always innovating to bring new features to life and tackle challenges like rendering thousands of static pages per minute, collaborating with other teams to integrate CMS and MLS data, and optimizing performance for real-time home search capabilities.
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.
