Staff Software Engineer - Backend

this team is to build and deliver innovative solutions across the real-estate ecosystem that deepen relationships with industry players, consumers, and brokers/agents. We are in the starting phase of the first product that will change the experience of agents and consumers through the home buying journey.

Top Reasons to Apply:

• Own and build a brand-new product from the ground up - Play a key role in a 0→1 initiative that will redefine the home closing and selling experience for millions of users and thousands of real estate professionals.

• Shape both consumer and customer experiences - Your work will directly impact how users engage with Realtor.com and how agents manage and close deals, bridging the gap between user needs and business growth.

• Modern tech stack with meaningful business impact - Collaborate with a high-caliber team using the latest technologies, all while driving revenue and innovation within one of the most critical parts of the real estate journey.

What You'll Do:

• Define work and drive technical decisions for complex features in the consumer and agent facing experiences

• Collaborate across functional teams to solve business problems, and lead each step of the product development process: from ideation to release; rapidly prototyping, experimenting and delivering solutions that scale to support millions of users

• Connect business and consumer problems to proposed technical solutions. Work with product and other stakeholders to rapidly deliver high-impact value and measure using data

• Define and evolve the architecture, design and implementation of consumer and agent facing experiences using clean architecture principles.

• Make effective and timely technology choices for implementing solutions, often without complete information.

• Drive a stable and scalable architecture using modern patterns to deliver a first-class mobile product. Drive adoption of design patterns, coding and quality standards, and software development processes

• Help improve code generation and quality by utilizing agentic AI and best practices

• Independently manage your tasks and proactively create and organize technical documentation to enhance team efficiency and support other engineers

• Mentor and coach junior engineers

What You'll Bring:

• 8+ years of experience in software architecture, design and development

• 5+ years of experience developing backend systems and working within a team environment.

• Experience with some modern distributed systems backend languages like Python or Typescript, or any other object oriented language (Go, Rust, Java, etc.)

• Good knowledge of distributed systems architecture from one of more cloud providers, preferable AWS, utilizing infrastructure as code

• Experience with both relational databases (Postgres, etc.) and document stores (DynamoDB, mongodb)

• Experience building maintainable and scalable systems

• Experience with agentic AI code generation a plus

• Experience with full stack development a plus

• A data-driven approach with strong results and outcome-oriented focus, understanding the value derived from rapidly shipping code and learning/iterating on the results

• Strong empathy for our consumers and agents, and a passion for exceeding their expectations

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, connecting directly and effectively with cross-functional technical and non-technical stakeholders at various levels

• Ability to decompose complex business problems and communicate solutions succinctly

• A passion for learning, continuous improvement, sharing, and working in a team environment

• Independent and can manage your own projects and time with ease, all the while setting and managing stakeholder expectations

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field, or equivalent professional experience

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. 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.