Principal Software Development Engineer, Rich Media
About The Position
The Rich Media AI group aims to reinvent the real estate buying and renting experience, where every mover can get an immersive and deep sense of a home online and reimagine it as their own. We are inventing technologies that allow people to feel like they’re already there - all from their phone or desktop. Using cutting-edge computer vision and AI science, we work across disciplines to build products like 360 tours, floor plans, aerial overviews, and new experiences not even imagined yet! Combined, we are creating the next chapter of home shopping experiences. As a Principal Software Development Engineer within Rich Media’s Home Capture team (residing within Zillow’s AI organization), you'll be well-positioned as an engineer focused on building and improving how Zillow Group captures and ingests Rich Media into our backend systems. As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you will play a pivotal role within Rich Media’s mission that enables large forward-looking work that unlocks wins across multiple teams. Home Capture team is the first stop along the pathway to better and more innovative experiences, providing real estate photographers and related systems the infrastructure and solutions they need to best capture the data required to connect and build these experiences. In this role, you will oversee larger-scoped projects that span across teams and partner orgs. Your most significant impact will stem from your ability to foresee future problems and orchestrate solutions, strategize across teams, and lead technical projects that span multiple teams/orgs in addition to your coding contributions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience
- Proactively collaborates across teams to communicate strategy and decisions
- Communication at technical, product strategy, and leadership levels
- Experience in creating technical software architecture designs
- Experience balancing delivering quality code with delivering experiences on a deadline
- Mentors senior engineers to develop independent technical leadership
- Defines and evolves platform-wide architectural standards, paved-road libraries, and testing/monitoring practices to ensure scalability and maintainability.
- Always seeking opportunities to identify and improve inefficiencies in existing systems
- Experience with cloud services (AWS Preferred)
- Champion quality and stability of services
- Knowledgeable of the software development lifecycle including code reviews testing, and operations
- Excels at driving large features from design to implementation
Nice To Haves
- Experience working closely with other platform engineers in mobile, web, ML, CV.
- Experience with photography, imaging, computer graphics
- Experience in Go (formerly Golang)
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with Kafka or other data streaming pipelines
Responsibilities
- Foresee technical problems that the teams are not yet facing and propose corrective actions
- Innovate new solutions that balance implementation time, quality, observability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Strategize future solutions that enable Rich Media solutions to efficiently scale
- Lead technical service solutions spanning multiple teams
- Mentor engineers within and outside the team
- Oversee key performance indicators and ensure proper visibility
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
