Software Development Engineer
About The Position
The Zillow Group is on a mission to revolutionize the real estate process and make it easier for buyers, sellers, and renters. Our goal is to provide a seamless experience from start to finish, helping you find, finance, and move into your dream home. We are taking an "Integrated Mortgage" approach, ensuring that every step of the journey is connected and hassle-free. The Zillow Home Loans (ZHL) engineering team as a whole plays a crucial role in achieving our ambitious goals and delivering an exceptional customer experience. We are connectors, leaders, and dedicated collaborators, working together to streamline the real estate transaction process and create a delightful and trustworthy journey for our customers. We work on every part of the stack, and collaborate with stakeholders across Zillow to make mortgages a transparent and seamless piece of the housing super app. The ZHL GNOME team is responsible for building and maintaining core databases, APIs, and infrastructure that power the ZHL Task Platform. This platform is the underlying technology that enables task-based workflows at every step of the mortgage lifecycle, simplifying and accelerating the development of operator and borrower experiences. Central to our platform is the OODA loop - Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. As data changes on the loan, we run client-maintained rules that can create the next action to be done. As a Software Development Engineer, you’ll lead the delivery and ongoing support of projects from end-to-end. In addition, you will: Contribute to the design of new features. Review the code of your peers. Advocate for standard methodologies. Facilitate engineering discussions. Mentor junior engineers. Participate in an inclusive, energetic and highly multi-functional team.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software development experience with ES6, React, Typescript, and GraphQL to power our web and mobile web applications and Python, NodeJS, and Go for APIs and services.
- Experienced in a range of persistence strategies including relational and non-relational databases.
- Highly skilled with multiple modern development technologies used to design, deliver, debug, and maintain front-end user interfaces and back-end software systems.
- Recognized as a technical leader on your team for several years and have an impact beyond your team.
- Passionate about setting standard methodologies and raising the bar for systems design, testing, code quality, and maintainability - not only for the team but for the entire engineering organization!
Nice To Haves
- 3+ years of experience with Typescript, Go, or other strongly typed languages
- Experience scaling relational databases, such as Aurora Postgres
- Experience building internal platforms at scale
- Experience in API design (GraphQL or REST)
- Experience building distributed systems and microservices
- Experience in Mortgage or Regulated Fintech
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design of new features.
- Review the code of your peers.
- Advocate for standard methodologies.
- Facilitate engineering discussions.
- Mentor junior engineers.
- Participate in an inclusive, energetic and highly multi-functional team.
Benefits
- bonuses depending on factors such as experience, performance and location
- equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location
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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
