Software Engineer, Sr

About the role

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

What You'll Do

• Use technology to create innovation that delights consumers, and agents, and disrupts the industry
• Define work and drive technical decisions for complex features in the consumer and agent facing experiences
• Collaborate across functional teams to solve business problems, and lead each step of the product development process: from ideation to release; rapidly prototyping, experimenting and delivering solutions that scale to support millions of users
• Connect business and consumer problems to proposed technical solutions. Work with product and other stakeholders to rapidly deliver high-impact value and measure using data
• Define and evolve the architecture, design and implementation of consumer and agent facing experiences using clean architecture principles. Make effective and timely technology choices for implementing solutions, often without complete information
• Drive a stable and scalable architecture using modern patterns to deliver a first-class mobile product
• Drive adoption of design patterns, coding and quality standards, and software development processes
• Help improve code generation and quality by utilizing agentic AI and best practices
• Mentor and coach junior engineers

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in software architecture, design and development, with specialty in developing backend APIs or full stack applications
• Experience with some modern distributed systems backend languages like Python or Typescript, or any other object oriented language (Go, Rust, Java, etc.)
• Good knowledge of distributed systems architecture from one of more cloud providers, preferable AWS, utilizing infrastructure as code
• Experience with both relational databases (Postgres, etc.) and document stores (DynamoDB, mongodb)
• Experience with frontend web or app application development
• Experience building maintainable and scalable systems
• Experience with agentic AI code generation a plus
• A data-driven approach with strong results and outcome-oriented focus, understanding the value derived from rapidly shipping code and learning/iterating on the results
• Strong empathy for our consumers and agents, and a passion for exceeding their expectations
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, connecting directly and effectively with cross-functional technical and non-technical stakeholders at various levels
• A passion for learning, continuous improvement, sharing, and working in a team environment
• Independent and can manage your own projects and time with ease, all the while setting and managing stakeholder expectations
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field, or equivalent professional experience

Qualifications

Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.