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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.
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our infrastructure organization. At Realtor.com® we are deeply committed to building a "Paved Path" for our engineers. This is a high-impact opportunity to treat our internal developer experience as a product building the tools third-party integrations and automation that allow our engineering teams to ship faster cost-effectively and securely on AWS.
This Software Engineer role sits squarely within the Cloud Governance team. Your mission is to embed compliance security and financial visibility into automated self-service developer workflows—making the right governance-compliant path the easiest path to take. You will manage your own commitments flag blockers proactively and adopt a RealOwnership mindset as you build and scale our Internal Developer Portal (IDP) based on the Backstage platform.
We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs (such as Copilot or Windsurf) proficiently to accelerate development velocity efficiently generate boilerplate for new plugins and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios. This role requires the judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security and performance ensuring high-quality delivery.
What you’ll do:
Backstage Core & Plugin Development
Portal Evolution: Build and maintain our Backstage instance working across the full stack from React-based frontend components to high-performance Node.js microservices on the backend.
Third-Party Integrations: Design develop and maintain custom plugins to integrate tooling (Finout ServiceNow CircleCI monitoring suites and security tools) into a single pane of glass.
Software Scaffolding: Create automated "Software Templates" that allow developers to spin up production-ready pre-governed AWS environments directly from the portal.
Cloud Governance & Observability Automation
Governance Scripting: Write clean Python and Node.js automation scripts to enforce cloud compliance IAM best practices and resource lifecycle rules behind the scenes.
Operational Visibility: Integrate AWS CloudWatch metrics audit data and cost frameworks into Backstage entity pages to give development teams real-time visibility into their service health and cloud spend.
Least-Privilege Security: Ensure all automated portal actions and provisioned resources strictly adhere to corporate IAM CloudTrail and auditing standards.
What you’ll bring:
Experience & Expertise
2–4 years of professional software development experience with a solid foundational understanding of both frontend and backend systems.
Hands-on experience building clean interactive web user interfaces using React paired with strong proficiency in Node.js and Python for building APIs microservices and infrastructure automation.
Working knowledge of core AWS services including compute/orchestration (Amazon EKS Lambda) and storage/security (S3 IAM policies roles and security boundaries).
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation templates to provision cloud architecture.
Preferred: Experience with Backstage NestJS REST/GraphQL and basic CI/CD pipeline integration (GitHub Actions CircleCI).
Technical Skills
Framework & Frontend: Backstage (Software Catalog & Developer Platform) React.
Languages & Backend: JavaScript/TypeScript Python Node.js NestJS REST/GraphQL.
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EKS Lambda S3 IAM) Terraform CloudFormation.
Governance & Monitoring: AWS CloudWatch CloudTrail.
Tools & CI/CD: AI Coding Assistants (Copilot Cursor Windsurf) GitHub Actions CircleCI.
Professional Qualities
Clear Communication: Ability to communicate tasks technical challenges and blockers clearly within a squad framework.
Squad-Level Collaboration: Active contributor to team collaboration receptive to feedback and comfortable iterating quickly to support fellow engineers.
Iterative Mindset: Excited by the "Build Reconstruct Build Better" value with the ability to fail fast and continuously improve code and processes.
Customer-Centric Execution: Empathy for the developer experience focusing execution on making compliance intuitive and friction-free for end users.
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.
Skills Required
- 2-4 years professional software development experience
- Proficiency building interactive web UIs with React
- Strong proficiency with Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript
- Strong proficiency with Python for automation and APIs
- Working knowledge of AWS services (EKS Lambda S3 IAM)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
- Experience integrating monitoring and governance (CloudWatch CloudTrail)
- Experience creating software templates/scaffolding to provision production-ready AWS environments
- Proficient use of AI coding assistants/LLMs (e.g. Copilot Windsurf) with security review judgment
- Experience with Backstage or building developer portals
- Experience with NestJS
- Experience with REST and/or GraphQL APIs
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline integration (GitHub Actions CircleCI)
- Ability to design and maintain third-party integrations (Finout ServiceNow monitoring/security tools)
What the Team is Saying
Realtor.com Compensation & Benefits Highlights
- Parental & Family Support—Parental leave for primary caregivers is described as generous alongside backup child and elder care and adoption assistance. Fertility and family‑building benefits lactation support and caregiving resources reinforce strong family support.
- Inclusive Benefits Coverage—Health coverage includes options for gender‑affirming care reproductive and fertility services autism support and mental‑health resources for adults and children. Multiple medical dental and vision plans and telemedicine extend access across diverse needs.
- Retirement Support—An employer‑matched 401(k) with Traditional and Roth options plus employer‑paid disability and basic life coverage offer a solid financial safety net. The match is characterized as decent and reliable for a mid‑size tech/real‑estate platform.
Realtor.com Insights
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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