Software Engineer, Principal - Technology (MarTech)
Data is the vital lifeblood upon which all of our tools and experiences are built. Data is an enabler and a multiplier that allows us to personalize our products, power our MarTech stack, make better decisions and manage our risks. We have an exciting and unique opportunity for a motivated and energetic Principal Software Engineer to join the Realtor.com MarTech Engineering team. In this position, you will help make valuable data easily accessible for everyone. You will work across the full stack and multiple teams developing and operating mission critical systems that integrate with thousands of data sources and process millions of records daily. You will ship code that ensures the flow of content onto realtor.com and across our publisher network to reach tens of millions of consumers, learn about and leverage new technologies, work with an experienced team of engineers and be part of a team that has a lot of fun along the way!
What you’ll do
- Work collaboratively in teams composed of Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers
- Guide teams in anticipation of extensibility needs and help them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes
- Lead by example, process improvement initiatives to improve our practices and the quality and timeliness of deliverables with high predictability
- Have a strong focus on performance, scalability, resiliency and availability
- Coach, mentor, and guide colleagues to deliver the best solution keeping in mind return on investment and total cost of ownership
- Design and implement new application features that delight our users
- Incorporate advanced machine learning and predictive analytic models into your solutions
- Design, develop and operationalize data pipelines, backend services and distributed systems using advanced data architectures deployed on Amazon Web Services
- Optimize our developer tool-chain to support instant provisioning of new services and infrastructure, fully automate deployment, and minimize development friction.
- Actively seek out new technologies, evaluate them and make recommendations to integrate them in our solutions and products
- Work in a product development process that is primarily Agile/Scrum
About You
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field, Master's degree a plus
- 15+ years experience in relevant fields (Building large scale web applications, web services, data pipelines, etc.)
- A driven software engineer that is motivated to build great products and a great code base in a fast-paced environment
- Intimately familiar with the Martech ecosystem having a solid understand of the pros and cons for each solution based on the desired outcomes
- Able to take requirements and build something that’s simple yet impactful, minimalistic yet beautiful, extensible yet maintainable.
- Independent and can manage your own projects and time with ease, all the while setting and managing stakeholder expectations
- Experience working across the full technical stack, delivering quality code on both front end and back end
- Attention to detail, great sense of design, and commitment to beautiful user experiences
- Exposure to cloud-based architectures, development, and deployment
- Extensive experience with build, test and deployment automation technologies
- Extensive experience monitoring for SLAs, alerting, and remediating service disruptions
About realtor.com
At realtor.com®, we believe that everyone deserves a home of their own. We’re a community of nearly 2,000 employees that work hard to ensure that from the moment someone starts dreaming about a new home, to the moment they walk in the door and beyond, we’re there to lend a helping hand. Every month, 80 million people trust us with their journey home by visiting our site and mobile apps, and we’d love to have you join our team to help.