At REW.ca, we believe real estate is one of life’s great adventures. As Canada’s leading real estate platform, we empower millions of Canadians to navigate their home search journeys with confidence. By combining innovative technology, deep market insights, and a seamless user experience, REW.ca empowers home seekers to find their perfect home. Our mission is to make real estate a more personal experience, guided by care, empathy, and innovation.
We’ve done this by carefully assembling a team of great people who have great ideas. One of those genius-level ideas is to make REW quite simply the best place in the world to work - and we’d like your help to get there.
And that’s where you come in.We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer (Rails and React) who blends technical thought-leadership with hands-on development, architecture, and mentorship. This role will help shape the technology powering one of Canada’s most trusted destinations for home buyers and sellers.
As part of our team, you’ll architect scalable applications, design modern full-stack systems integrating a wide range of advanced data sets and services. Beyond building, you’ll play a critical role in mentorship, architecture, and release management, raising the bar for both our codebase and our culture.
With a Great Role comes Great Responsibilities.- Design, develop and deploy back-end services using Ruby on Rails (7.2).
- Support the development of front-end services using both Rails native (haml) and React technologies, integrating these with back-end services.
- Introduce full stack architecture and development approaches to the team and delivery cycle.
- Architect and implement GraphQL-based integrations for scalable and efficient data access.
- Implement unit testing and integrate it with continuous integration tools as required.
- Establish and champion back-end best practices, ensuring extensibility, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Provide technical mentorship and conduct thorough code reviews to raise the overall bar for the team.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, backend, infrastructure and data platform teams to deliver high-quality, customer-focused features.
- Own aspects of release management, ensuring smooth deployments and stable production environments.
- Act as a thought leader, influencing technical strategy and contributing to the team’s long-term success.
- Proven professional experience in Ruby on Rails and React development.
- Advanced knowledge of Rails architecture and design patterns.
- Strong understanding of Postgres (schema design, performance tuning, queries).
- Expertise in GraphQL integrations and API design.
- Experience with release management practices, CI/CD pipelines, and version control (Git).
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams, mentor developers, and conduct effective code reviews.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical and product decisions.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS). (Nice to have)
- Be part of REW.ca, a leading proptech platform connecting millions of Canadian home seekers with their next property.
- Opportunity to shape the architecture and direction of a product at the forefront of the real estate technology space.
- Collaborate with a talented, mission-driven team passionate about building intuitive, data-rich, and engaging experiences for home buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals.
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth in a fast-evolving industry.
We understand that you probably skipped from the top right down to here. You’re only human, after all. Here’s the part you were looking for:
In addition to competitive compensation, we provide a comprehensive benefits package, the best equipment for you to do your best work, and awesome perks and team events to keep you connected. Annual compensation for this role is $135,000 - $165,000, depending on experience.
Please note, this position requires part-time, weekly on-site availability at our Vancouver offices.
If you are interested in helping to make a rapidly-growing real estate tech company one of the best places in the world to work, submit your application below.
