Dir Software Engineering

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.

Realtor.com is looking for a Director of Engineering for the Consumer experience to be responsible for building and operating critical product experiences platforms and services. This leader will oversee managers and senior technical leaders across multiple domains that support core revenue for the business.

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can operate at both the organizational and technical levels. You will shape strategy develop leaders raise the engineering bar and guide modernization efforts across web mobile and service boundaries. You will partner closely with Product Design Data and peer engineering organizations to deliver customer value while improving speed quality reliability and long-term maintainability.

• Lead a broad high-impact consumer engineering portfolio that directly shapes experiences used by millions of consumers.
• Influence both business outcomes and technical direction across revenue-critical products shared platforms and modernization efforts.
• Tackle meaningful technical challenges across web native backend and platform systems in an environment where strategy and execution are tightly connected.
• AI-forward culture: The org is actively building and deploying AI-powered tooling and consumer experiences with 100% AI adoption as a company goal
• Join a role with real visibility strong cross-functional partnership and the opportunity to leave a lasting organizational footprint.
• Senior team: You’ll work alongside Staff and Sr. Staff engineers who are already deep domain experts

• Partner with Product Design Analytics and business stakeholders to shape roadmaps that improve consumer experience and business performance
• Translate company and org strategy into engineering plans staffing priorities delivery milestones and measurable outcomes
• Drive execution across a portfolio of initiatives with varying levels of ambiguity dependency complexity and organizational visibility

• Set technical direction across a diverse portfolio of consumer applications platforms and services
• Guide architectural decisions spanning web native backend and platform boundaries
• Lead modernization efforts that improve scalability consistency observability security and developer productivity
• Raise the quality bar for engineering design code health testing strategy CI/CD reliability and operational excellence using AI from the get go

• Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices that improve planning coding testing documentation and operational workflows
• Help the organization evolve toward systems and practices that are easier for both humans and AI tools to understand operate and extend
• Build an engineering organization that can scale quality and delivery without scaling complexity at the same rate

• Lead an engineering organization through managers and senior leaders creating clarity in structure ownership and accountability
• Coach develop and support leaders through regular feedback performance management succession planning and career growth
• Create an inclusive high-accountability culture where engineers and leaders can do strong work grow their impact and operate with trust
• Hire and retain strong engineering talent while maintaining a high bar for leadership technical judgment and collaboration

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years leading engineering teams including managing managers
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Strong technical foundation in modern web development and architecture (TypeScript React GraphQL AWS).
• Comfortable operating across levels: from strategy to critical technical and delivery decisions.
• Strong instinct for connecting engineering execution to business metrics: you think in terms of conversion retention and revenue impact not just shipping features.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management able to influence without authority represent platform value to product and business leaders and navigate competing priorities across multiple stream-aligned teams
• A collaborative empathetic leader with strong cross-functional communication skills.
• Ability to identify and utilize each individual team members strengths benefiting the greater organization

• Experience with AI developer tooling strategy: evaluating deploying and driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools across an engineering organization
• Exposure to commerce subscription systems or monetization surfaces.
• Familiarity with modern web and service architectures using technologies such as GraphQL AWS event-driven systems observability platforms and CI/CD pipelines in large engineering environments.
• Experience with mobile  (iOS/Android architecture React Native or native)

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. Our employees work three days in our Austin headquarters where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and well-being 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

What We Do

For years millions of home shoppers have turned to realtor.com® to find their dream home. Operated by Move Inc. realtor.com® offers a comprehensive list of for-sale properties as well as the information and tools to make informed real estate decisions. Today more than ever realtor.com® is The Home of Home Search℠.Realtor.com® also offers homeowners a bevy of useful tools and resources through the My Home℠ dashboard. My Home℠ dashboard allows property owners to manage their home like the important investment it is by tracking their home’s value over time researching and managing home improvements and scouting other similar properties in the neighborhood.

Why Work With Us

The way home begins with you. With a diverse team of experts alongside you you’ll help us reach new heights at the forefront of the digital real estate space. Bring your extensive knowledge and deep expertise and collaborate with other passionate visionaries to lead our industry and revolutionize the way people find home in every form.

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