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Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.
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.
As a Senior Software Engineer at Realtor.com®, you will be a key, independent contributor within your team, tackling complex problems using advanced technologies and best engineering practices. Collaborating closely with your team, you will design and develop software that addresses both consumer and customer needs. You write stable code that a software engineer unfamiliar with the system can understand. You will balance trade-offs effectively and leverage existing solutions when appropriate. You will collaborate with Product Management on initiatives and interact with customers, stakeholders, and peers.
You will be joining a team that builds innovative technology solutions to help those in their buying, renting, and selling journeys who have been connected to real estate agents and other real estate partners.
We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs proficiently to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios. Beyond simple usage, this role requires the critical judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security, performance, and accuracy. You should be comfortable integrating AI tooling into your daily workflow to eliminate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on high-impact architectural and strategic engineering challenges.
What will you do?
- Participate in system architecture and design reviews
- Develop solutions that are of high quality, scalable, and reliable
- Work collaboratively in squads composed of Product Managers, Designers, Analysts, and Engineers.
- Help mentor and develop a team of engineers
- Investigate and prototype technologies that can be leveraged to introduce innovations
- Be self-directed, take initiative, and drive towards solutions with little guidance
What will you bring?
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience in software development
- Proven experience in developing scalable systems.
- Proficiency in software development or a strong willingness to learn the Realtor.com® technology stack, including Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, NumPy, Pandas) and React.
- Experience with Node.js.
- Extensive experience working with both relational and non-relational databases.
- Experience with database systems, AI, Machine Learning, and AWS knowledge preferred
- Experience delivering high value to customers quickly, and frequently, with regular feedback and support
- Experience with system design and trade-offs between design approaches
- Strong software engineering best practices (e.g., testing, code reviews, documentation).
- Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
- Family forming benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Time Off
- 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
- Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
- Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
- 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
- Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®
Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Diversity is important to us, therefore, 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.
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