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.
About The Role
The Content team is the heart of http://Realtor.com ’s core client and consumer experience. As a Senior
Software Engineer, you will help power our property content platform by building scalable systems that
integrate with thousands of data sources and handle millions of records daily. The content you deliver
fuels product experiences and supports decisions across the company.
You will work across backend and data layers to deliver reliable, high-performance software that enables
real-time ingestion, quality checks, automation, and downstream distribution to tens of millions of users.
We are modernizing our platform using technologies like Kafka, ArgoCD, and CircleCI, while also
investing in AI-driven solutions to improve content quality and developer efficiency.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
● Design, develop, and operate scalable backend services, data pipelines, and content ingestion
systems
● Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to build reliable, impactful feature
● Lead by example, process improvement initiatives to improve our practices and the quality and
timeliness of deliverables with high predictability
● Coach, mentor, and guide colleagues to deliver the best solution keeping in mind return on
investment and total cost of ownership
● Apply AI and automation to improve data quality, monitoring, and operational efficiency
● Implement infrastructure-as-code and continuous delivery with tools like ArgoCD and CircleCI
● Use event-driven architectures such as Kafka to improve performance and scalability
● Actively seek out new technologies, evaluate them and make recommendations to integrate them
in our solutions and products
● Work in a product development process that is primarily Agile/Scrum
About you
Requirements
● A driven software engineer that is motivated to build great products and a great codebase in a
fast-paced environment
● Independent and can manage your own projects and time with ease, all the while setting and
managing stakeholder expectations
● Experience working across the full technical stack, delivering quality code on both frontend and
backend
● Attention to detail, great sense of design, and commitment to beautiful user experiences
● 5+ years experience building web applications, web services and data pipelines
● Proficient in multiple object oriented programming language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Go, Java,
Node.js, Dart) and the eagerness to learn more
● Experience with distributed systems and observability tools
● Exposure to cloud-based architectures, development, and deployment
● Exposure to build, test and deployment automation technologies
● Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS
● Exposure to monitoring for SLAs, alerting, and remediating service disruptions
● Understanding of computer science fundamentals, schema design, and best practices
● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field, Master's degree a plus
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.
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