Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

27d•Hybrid

About The Position

Realtor.com® is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join their high-performance engineering organization as a full-time, hands-on individual contributor. This role involves being embedded within a cross-functional team that owns critical segments of the consumer ecosystem. The engineering organization is structured so that each domain team owns its vertical stack end-to-end, from backend microservices and APIs through frontend and DevOps. The ideal candidate will have genuine depth across all layers of the stack, contributing independently within their first few weeks. The company is looking for an innovative, proactive, and self-driven engineer who actively seeks out better tools, raises quality standards, and delivers without waiting for direction. They value self-learners who challenge the status quo, take pride in the reliability of their work, and can navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment. Potential teams include New Constructions, Mortgage & Financial Services, and Rentals Post-Lead & B2B Partnerships.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems and high-traffic, consumer-facing products.
Proven depth across backend services, RESTful/GraphQL APIs, modern frontend frameworks (React or equivalent), and cloud/DevOps.
Strong experience with Node.js and microservice architectures.
Experience building search, marketplace, listing-based, or financial services products (e.g., loan application flows, rate calculators, lender/partner API integrations).
Direct ownership of production infrastructure, including observability, SLOs, and incident management.
Strong project management skills to independently drive features from scoping through delivery in an agile, matrixed environment.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Hands-on experience integrating AI-assisted development tools into your daily workflow.
Familiarity with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS) and data pipelines (e.g., Snowflake, S3, Aurora, reverse ETL).
Experience deploying and operating services on AWS using Kubernetes and containerization.
Familiarity with federated GraphQL architecture.
Understanding of financial data sensitivity and compliance considerations relevant to consumer financial products (e.g., RESPA, TILA awareness).
Comfort working in a data- and metrics-driven engineering culture aligned with performance KPIs.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-traffic features and partner integrations across the full vertical stack (backend, APIs, frontend, infrastructure, databases).
Write well-tested, production-ready code and own and enforce test automation standards (unit, integration, E2E) in line with an engineering-owned quality model.
Take full accountability for the operational quality, observability, and reliability of services, including setting SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response readiness.
Ensure data integrity, secure engineering practices, and compliance-aware design when handling sensitive consumer, financial, and high-volume marketplace data.
Leverage and champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools to optimize development workflows.
Drive project delivery with strong personal ownership, managing scope, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies.
Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders to build trust quickly.