Senior Software Developer - Data Platform

Redfin • Seattle, WA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is a hybrid role requiring employees to work from our headquarters location in Seattle, WA every Tuesday and Wednesday, and remote all other days. Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data, beautiful software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying and selling process. Get ready to dive headfirst into our award-winning website, mobile apps and data platforms, solving complex business problems in a highly visible, customer-centric way. If you value doing great work in a collaborative environment, join our team! The Data Ingestion and Infrastructure team builds scalable infrastructure, large-batch data workflows, and modern data lake platforms that power Redfin’s large-scale data ecosystem. The team leads the integration of third-party datasets such as WalkScore.com and develops unified data merging platforms to standardize, reconcile, and consolidate heterogeneous data sources into trusted, production-grade datasets. In close partnership with Machine Learning teams, we enable reliable, high-quality data pipelines that support advanced modeling, analytics, and product innovation, strengthening Redfin’s position as the most trusted real estate site in the US. The Role Work on Redfin’s data platforms, building scalable data pipelines and tooling to keep Redfin’s inventory faster and higher quality than our competitors Contribute to the development and modernization of the company’s Airflow platform to support reliable, large-scale batch workflows Lead efforts to modernize WalkScore.com into a unified common data platform integrated with Redfin’s ecosystem Help design and build Redfin’s enterprise data lake to support scalable storage, processing, and analytics Build products and tools that drive some of the company’s most critical metrics and impact revenue growth Using and evangelizing approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code About You You are an experienced developer with 5+ years of experience developing large data processing platforms. You have experience developing large scale applications backed by relational and non-relational databases - we utilize Kafka, Java, Python, Postgres, SQL, K8s, Jenkins, Snowflake, Spark, and Airflow in AWS. Experience operating, maintaining, and modernizing legacy systems (Ubuntu, MySQL, Node.js, Python), with a focus on improving scalability, reliability, and performance. You have built tooling to help monitor, maintain and update essential data You’re curious and a life-long learner: you’re willing to take risks and champion new ideas. You will exercise thought leadership in designing, architecting, and implementing solutions for difficult challenges faced by your partner teams You are a teacher and a mentor: you have the leadership skills (and the patience) to improve the developers around you. You live and breathe a culture of quality data, service to customers, operational partners and teammates. Above all, you share a passion for our mission to create a fundamentally better real estate experience for our customers.

Requirements

• You are an experienced developer with 5+ years of experience developing large data processing platforms.
• You have experience developing large scale applications backed by relational and non-relational databases - we utilize Kafka, Java, Python, Postgres, SQL, K8s, Jenkins, Snowflake, Spark, and Airflow in AWS.
• Experience operating, maintaining, and modernizing legacy systems (Ubuntu, MySQL, Node.js, Python), with a focus on improving scalability, reliability, and performance.
• You have built tooling to help monitor, maintain and update essential data
• You’re curious and a life-long learner: you’re willing to take risks and champion new ideas.
• You will exercise thought leadership in designing, architecting, and implementing solutions for difficult challenges faced by your partner teams
• You are a teacher and a mentor: you have the leadership skills (and the patience) to improve the developers around you.
• You live and breathe a culture of quality data, service to customers, operational partners and teammates.
• Above all, you share a passion for our mission to create a fundamentally better real estate experience for our customers.
• Deep knowledge of at least one AI code generation tool, such as GitHub CoPilot, Anthropic Claude Code, Cursor, or similar

Responsibilities

• Work on Redfin’s data platforms, building scalable data pipelines and tooling to keep Redfin’s inventory faster and higher quality than our competitors
• Contribute to the development and modernization of the company’s Airflow platform to support reliable, large-scale batch workflows
• Lead efforts to modernize WalkScore.com into a unified common data platform integrated with Redfin’s ecosystem
• Help design and build Redfin’s enterprise data lake to support scalable storage, processing, and analytics
• Build products and tools that drive some of the company’s most critical metrics and impact revenue growth
• Using and evangelizing approved AI code generation tools to document, architect, and create code

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages with a salary, bonuses, and restricted stock grants
• Generous benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, fully paid family leave, and paid vacation.
• A high-growth company, providing opportunities for continued professional development and growth
• You'll get far more responsibility than at a big company, while at the same time far less stress than you will find in a 2-person garage startup.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed