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.
Would you like to work in an engineering environment that rewards your passion? The New Constructions engineering team offers a remarkable opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research and development of highly scalable, data-driven, consumer-facing solutions. Our aim is to empower a diverse and inclusive range of consumers who are seeking their dream home. As the leading provider of builder listings in the US, the Realtor New Construction team continuously brings forth innovative solutions to enhance accessibility and expedite consumers' journey towards homeownership. Whether it's building the technological infrastructure that enables the development of vibrant communities or the construction of hyper-customized green houses, we are actively seeking engineers who are driven by making a tangible impact. Collaborate and learn from world-class talent who foster a culture of data-driven decision-making, experimentation, and continuous learning. Leverage the latest technologies, including Typescript, React, Node.js, NestJS, NextJS, GraphQL, AWS, AI tools, and more, to accelerate your professional growth and achieve new heights in your career.
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to assume the role of technical lead for the New Homes team. This individual will be responsible for defining the multi-year technical roadmap for the consumer New Homes experience, ensuring the health and strategic evolution of a mission-critical platform connecting millions of home shoppers with builders, and elevating engineering standards across the entire New Homes organization.
Top Reasons to Apply:
1. Hands-On Cloud & DevOps Ownership
You’ll own the infrastructure, not just the code. You will design AWS data pipelines and automate the toolchain (using Lambda, ECS, and CloudFormation) to enable instant service provisioning and zero-friction deployments.
2. AI-Driven Engineering Culture
The team actively rewards engineers who leverage AI tools as a performance multiplier. You’ll be encouraged to use AI to write better code faster and accelerate development in a forward-thinking environment.
3. Full-Stack Scale & Impact
You will own the end-to-end architecture for the top builder listing site in the US. This means bridging complex AWS data pipelines with high-velocity, SEO-optimized React/NextJS frontends handling massive traffic.
What you’ll do:
- Work collaboratively in teams composed of Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers
- Own the architecture and multi-quarter technical roadmap for the New Homes consumer stack, encompassing the frontend (React/Next.js), GraphQL subgraph (Apollo GraphQL), backend API (Node.js, AWS), and supporting data pipelines (Kafka, Aurora, Prism, Snowflake)
- Lead the strategic implementation of the AI adoption roadmap for New Homes Consumer, including initiatives such as RealAnswers, AI-generated summaries, AI video, and AI-assisted search, with a focus on balancing experimentation velocity with cost-efficiency, quality, and rigorous monitoring
- Drive the evolution of our New Homes pipeline
- Coach, mentor, and guide teams on industry standards and best practices to support the growth of our engineers
- Have a strong focus on accuracy, completeness, reliability and relevance
- Perform corrective and adaptive maintenance on software systems including coding bug fixes and enhancements and undertaking system analyses and technology migrations
- Serve as a consultative technical resource for customer care and business teams
- Guide the team in anticipation of extensibility needs and help them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes
- Actively seek out new technologies, evaluate them and make recommendations to integrate them in our solutions and products
- When problems are detected, drive to the root cause, communicate with the right parties and contribute to the resolution until the issue is resolved
- Work in a product development process that is primarily Agile/Scrum
What You'll Bring:
- 3 or more years of experience as technical lead
- 8 or more years of experience developing software in one or more modern programming languages, frameworks, cloud technologies, and libraries (e.g. Typescript, Node.js, NextJS, NestJS, AWS, ReactJS)
- Driving AI adoption and tooling
- Experience implementing a variety of Amazon Web Services
- Experience maintaining operational excellence, providing team leadership, and guiding operational support across multiple teams during large scale initiatives or rollouts
- A driven engineer that is motivated to drive improvement of operational procedures and processes in a fast-paced environment
- Able to identify needed change and make improvements toward operational scripts, services, and the underlying technologies
- Self motivated and can manage projects and time independently with ease, all the while setting and managing stakeholder expectations
- Ability to technically lead and guide other team members to deliver and make operation improvements
- Understanding of computer science fundamentals, schema design, and best practices
- Strong software operational instincts: meaningful and deeply-rooted opinions about sound quality/speed trade-offs, data quality, and testing
- Experience with web languages, frameworks and libraries such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, AngularJS and D3 is a plus
- Knowledge of proper use of source revision-control systems (git, svn, cvs, etc) is a must
- A strong fundamental understanding of SQL and RDBMS technologies
- Experience with build, test and deployment automation technologies
- Extensive experience monitoring for SLAs, alerting, and remediating service disruptions
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build good working relationships are musts
- Four-year college or university degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline
How We Work:
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.
How We Reward You:
Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:
- 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.
Realtor.com Austin, Texas, USA Office
Our office is located in the vibrant east side of I-35, adjacent to downtown Austin, offering a prime, easily accessible location. We prioritize both productivity and comfort, with modern sit/stand desks and complimentary cold brew available to fuel your day.
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