Senior Manager, Software Engineering - RDC Next

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

About The Position

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. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to join our RDC Next organization. The charter of the RDC Next team is to build and deliver innovative solutions across the real estate ecosystem that deepen relationships with MLS organizations, consumers, brokers, and agents. This is a high-impact opportunity to lead the squad building the product that will change the experience of agents and consumers through the home buying journey. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a high-performing squad of backend engineers dedicated to building, scaling, and delivering end-to-end product features for the RDC+ search-to-own platform. The engineers on this team are highly experienced, ranging from Senior to Senior Staff Engineers. Managing this senior tier requires a leader who balances strong technical governance with advanced people coaching, helping tenured technical leaders scale their organizational impact while maintaining a culture of trust and high performance. You will play a pivotal role in accelerating value delivery and engineering excellence while maintaining a RealOwnership mindset across your team. We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to lead the adoption of modern, AI-native engineering workflows across your squad. You will mentor the team on effective prompting strategies, establish guardrails for code security and quality assurance within AI-assisted workflows, and continuously evaluate emerging tooling to keep our engineering practice at the cutting edge.

Requirements

1 to 2+ years of experience directly leading and managing software engineering teams within a fast-moving technology organization.
6+ years of overall hands-on professional backend software engineering experience, with a proven track record of developing highly performant distributed systems.
Demonstrated experience managing or leading senior and staff-level technical talent, with a proven capability to influence and earn the trust of high-level engineers without micromanaging.
Deep understanding of modern backend architectures, microservices design patterns, relational and non-relational databases (such as Postgres or MySQL), and AWS cloud platforms.
Proven technical depth in one or more of our target backend languages: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Java.
Advanced understanding of AWS ecosystems and modern distributed backend architectures.
Practical experience or passion for integrating AI-native workflows (such as Copilot or Cursor) into the SDLC ethically and securely to optimize developer efficiency.
Strong grounding in Agile execution, CI/CD pipelines, and data-driven delivery metrics.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align cross-functional partners (Product, Design, Architecture) on a shared engineering roadmap.
A results-oriented mindset centered on rapidly shipping high-quality code, measuring success, and iteratively optimizing platform performance.
Ability to connect the technical work of the team back to core business goals and user trust, reflecting the principles found in our Tech RealValues Interview Question Bank.

Responsibilities

Lead and empower a squad of senior, staff, and senior staff backend engineers, fostering an environment of high autonomy, trust, and continuous improvement.
Provide nuanced coaching tailored to high-level individual contributors. Guide senior engineers toward staff tiers and help staff and senior staff engineers broaden their systemic and organizational influence.
Actively remove roadblocks, manage dependencies, and rally the team to deliver high-quality, incremental value using Agile methodologies.
Guide the team to rapidly deliver scalable, operationally excellent product features for the RDC+ search-to-own platform, encompassing user-facing capabilities, core microservices, and data architectures.
Partner with engineers, product managers, technical leads, architects, and third party vendors across the organization to define backend roadmaps and maintain the architectural integrity of RDC+ products.
Establish team-wide standards for AI-assisted development, ensuring effective utilize of LLMs for velocity while maintaining critical judgment over security and performance.