Lead AI Full Stack Developer

HomeLife/Cimerman Real Estate Ltd.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

HomeLife/Cimerman Real Estate Ltd. is seeking an experienced senior developer to lead our growing technology environment.

This hands-on role emphasizes using AI to solve problems and make meaningful technical decisions, working closely with leadership to design and build scalable, secure systems. You will write and review production code daily, mentor other developers, and take business problems and turn them into practical technical solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience taking ownership of a system or significant application to evolve it.
• Experience working with AI for development and production and willingness to incorporate AI into your work.
• Experience mentoring other developers.
• Strong ability to understand unfamiliar code and diagnose problems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical resource across our development environment and lead architectural decisions.
• Write and review production code daily; turn business problems into practical technical solutions.
• Coordinate across multiple projects and systems while keeping priorities in sight.
• Work with contractors and external partners to meet technical standards and explain decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ensure production systems are secure, reliable, monitored, and cost-aware; manage AWS environments for websites and applications.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Astro

Node.js

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Docker

Tools

AWS

Job description

HomeLife is a Real Estate organization with a growing technology environment spanning real estate platforms, websites, lead generation, business tools, payments, marketplaces, cloud infrastructure and AI.

We're looking for an experienced developer to become the senior technical leader within our development team. This is a hands-on position for someone who wants to use AI to build, solve problems and make meaningful technical decisions.

You will work closely with leadership and our existing team to understand business problems, determine the right technical solution, design and build it, and ensure our systems remain secure, reliable and scalable.

If you enjoy variety, ownership and solving problems from beginning to end, this role offers a lot of room to make an impact.

The Role:

• Serve as the senior technical resource across our development environment.
• Utilize AI to make architectural and technical decisions for new and existing systems.
• Write and review production code daily.
• Take business problems and turn them into practical technical solutions.
• Work across multiple projects and systems without losing sight of priorities.

• Work with contractors and external technology partners to ensure work meets our technical standards.
• Explain technical decisions and limitations clearly to non-technical people.

Keep systems secure and reliable:

• Help ensure our production systems are secure, stable and properly monitored.
• Manage and improve AWS environments supporting our websites and applications.
• Understand access control, networking, monitoring, backups, deployments and cloud costs.
• Help ensure production changes are tested and deployed responsibly.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience taking ownership of a system or significant application and making the technical decisions required to keep it running and evolving.
• Experience working with AI for development and production and willingness to incorporate AI into your work.
• Experience mentoring other developers.
• Strong ability to understand unfamiliar code and independently determine how it works, where problems are occurring and how to fix them.
• Strong experience with:
  • TypeScript.
  • React.
  • Next.js.
  • Astro.
  • Node.js.
  • PostgreSQL.
  • MongoDB.
  • Docker.
• Experience working with AWS in a production environment, particularly for websites and web applications.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure, deployments, access controls, monitoring, backups and reliability.
• Practical understanding of security and privacy principles.

• A collaborative, flexible and open-minded approach to problem solving.

What to expect:

This is a hands-on role with leadership responsibilities. This position is ideal for someone with an open mindset and the ability to work in a dynamic environment. The ideal candidate will work full-time in the office.