Senior Software Engineer

At Realtor.com®, we have among the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all the online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone.
Building your career? Build it better at Realtor.com®. Join us and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.
Senior Software Engineer at Realtor.com (View all jobs)
Location : Austin, TX
Realtor.com is your one stop shop for homebuyers, sellers, and dreamers, with comprehensive for-sale listings, insightful information, valuable tools and professional expertise. We make buying, selling, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone. We're excited and hungry to make a difference to the millions of people in the US who buy a home each year. Our aspiration starts with treating our home buyer as our focal point - we believe that delivering on experiences that truly help people through this seemingly difficult life event will lead us to continued and greater success as a company.
About The Role
We have an exciting and unique opportunity for a motivated and energetic Sr Software Engineer to join the Realtor.com ONS team. In this position, you will help develop, maintain, scale our frontend applications and tools for owners and sellers that help our consumers find the right selling options for their homes, you will help integrate 3rd party partners APIs to our sellers marketplace, incorporate new tools and experiments on My Home dashboard to help homeowners visualize and understand their home's value and the data associated with it providing useful information to empower their decision making. You will collaborate with other teams to help on our technological roadmap evolution and optimization efforts.
What you'll do:

• Help architect and develop and maintain highly scalable, dynamic and interactive pages using React.js for frontend applications that talk to Node JS API services, and Apollo Federated GraphQL gateways
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers Collaborating in breaking down work into smaller and more manageable pieces of work to deliver incremental value to our consumers.
• Collaborate with a team of Developers (local and remote) for effective delivery and provide constructive feedback on PR reviews.
• Work effectively with cross-functional team members to deliver compelling products.
• Work collaboratively in an Agile/Scrum team to plan and execute at high velocity, and across teams throughout the organization to reuse - existing components and architect shared functionality
• Work in a product development process that is primarily Agile/Scrum
• Help fine tune page load performance and SEO

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.
What you'll bring:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/related field or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of experience developing software in one or more modern programming languages (e.g. JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Go) and five years of frontend development experience
• Working experience across the full technical stack, delivering quality code on both frontend and backend, with a strong understanding of CS fundamentals, design patterns, schema design, and best practices
• Knowledge of next.js and understanding of micro frontend applications
• Experienced in building server-side rendered single-page applications
• Experienced with implementing progressive web applications and service workers
• Expert in isomorphic Javascript, CSS/SaSS, and HTML
• Deep understanding of how to monitor and tune application performance
• Deep understanding of how to write SEO-friendly React applications
• Experienced in building large-scale Internet applications with modern Pipeline systems (CircleCI is a plus)
• Experience with modern orchestration tooling such as Kubernetes (ArgoCD is a plus)
• Experience with containerization tooling (Docker is a plus)
• Prior exposure to cloud-based architectures, development, and deployment
• Familiar with cloud technologies such as AWS EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of TypeScript is a plus
• Have an AB testing mindset where everything that gets deployed can be measured for impact and to derive insights
• A driven software engineer who is motivated to build great products and a great codebase in a fast-paced environment
• Build requirements into a simple, beautiful, extensible and maintainable products
• Setting and managing stakeholder expectations
• Strong communication skills with a growth and learning mindset
• Experienced with developing complex software systems using modern frameworks, tools, and systems
• Strong analytical thinking, strategic vision and ability to make data-driven decisions
• Attention to detail, great sense of design, and commitment to beautiful user experiences

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com
Building your career? Build it better 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. People are our foundation-the core that drives us passionately forward. 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.
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. People are our foundation-the core that drives us passionately forward. 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.