Director of Software Engineering, Mobile Applications

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Realtor.com® is seeking a Director of Software Engineering, Mobile Applications to lead the engineering teams responsible for their consumer-facing mobile experiences across iOS and Android. This leader will own the end-to-end delivery, quality, performance, and evolution of their mobile applications. They will partner closely with Product, Design, Data, AI, and Platform leaders to create intuitive, reliable, and personalized experiences. This is a product-oriented engineering leadership role that requires strong mobile technical judgment, a deep understanding of consumer behavior, business outcomes, and organizational leadership. The role involves building and developing high-performing teams, establishing a unified mobile application strategy, and ensuring that iOS and Android experiences operate as one coherent product ecosystem.

Requirements

Significant (10+ years) software engineering experience, including substantial leadership responsibility for large-scale consumer mobile applications.
5-7 years experience leading engineering managers and multiple teams across iOS and Android.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Strong technical knowledge of modern native mobile architecture, development practices, application lifecycle management, and app-store delivery.
Experience operating mobile applications with significant traffic, frequent releases, and high expectations for performance and reliability.
Demonstrated success building customer-facing products in a marketplace, e-commerce, travel, financial services, media, or similarly complex consumer environment.
Experience with modular application architecture, APIs, experimentation, feature management, observability, automated testing, and CI/CD.
Understanding of server-driven experiences, remote configuration, webviews, and approaches that allow selected functionality to evolve independently of native application releases.
Ability to determine where native experiences are essential and where alternative delivery models can responsibly improve speed and flexibility.
Strong product judgment and the ability to connect engineering decisions with customer and business outcomes.
Proven ability to recruit, coach, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and teams.
Strong communication skills and experience influencing senior technical, product, and business stakeholders.
A track record of operating effectively through ambiguity, organizational change, and competing priorities.

Responsibilities

Lead the Mobile Application Organization, including multiple engineering teams responsible for customer-facing functionality across the company’s iOS and Android applications.
Manage and develop engineering managers, senior technical leaders, and mobile engineers.
Establish clear ownership, operating rhythms, engineering standards, and accountability across mobile application teams.
Own the engineering delivery of key mobile customer journeys, including search, discovery, property experiences, saved homes, personalization, account experiences, notifications, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities.
Work closely with Product and Design to translate business strategy and customer needs into an executable mobile roadmap.
Ensure strong alignment across iOS and Android while preserving platform-specific experiences and conventions.
Improve planning, estimation, dependency management, and delivery predictability across multiple teams.
Establish clear success measures tied to customer engagement, retention, conversion, lead generation, and overall product quality.
Define and evolve the architecture of large-scale consumer mobile applications.
Drive modular, maintainable, and scalable application designs that support rapid product development.
Partner with iOS, Android, Web, API, Identity, Data, and AI platform teams to establish clear interfaces and shared technical standards.
Advance capabilities such as feature flags, remote configuration, experimentation, server-driven experiences, and selective web-based delivery.
Increase the amount of functionality that can be safely introduced, adjusted, or rolled back without requiring an immediate app-store release.
Guide the responsible use of native, cross-platform, server-driven, and web technologies based on customer experience, security, performance, and business needs.
Reduce technical debt while balancing near-term product commitments with long-term platform health.
Own mobile application quality, stability, performance, accessibility, and operational readiness.
Establish measurable standards for crash-free sessions, startup time, responsiveness, app size, battery utilization, network performance, and customer-reported issues.
Strengthen automated testing, continuous integration, deployment automation, staged rollout, monitoring, and rollback capabilities.
Improve the speed and reliability of iOS and Android releases while meeting app-store policies and security requirements.
Ensure teams use telemetry, customer insights, experiments, and production data to guide decisions.
Build strong incident-management and continuous-improvement practices across the mobile organization.
Build trusted partnerships with Product, Design, Analytics, Marketing, Security, Infrastructure, and Customer Support.
Collaborate with mobile platform leaders who own shared iOS and Android foundations, developer tooling, architecture, and reusable capabilities.
Align application and platform investments to avoid duplication and accelerate delivery across teams.
Communicate strategy, priorities, risks, progress, and tradeoffs clearly to executive and cross-functional stakeholders.
Represent mobile engineering in planning, architecture, investment, and product strategy discussions.