Software Engineer, Sr - RDC Next

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

About The Position

We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative and consumer-obsessed Senior Software Engineer to join our RDC Next team. The charter for this team is to build and deliver innovative solutions across the real-estate ecosystem that deepen relationships with industry players, consumers, and brokers/agents. We are in the starting phase of the first product that will change the experience of agents and home buyers through the home buying journey. We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs proficiently to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios. Beyond simple usage, this role requires the critical judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security, performance, and accuracy. You should be comfortable integrating AI tooling into your daily workflow to eliminate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on high-impact architectural and strategic engineering challenges.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in software architecture, design and development, with specialty in developing backend APIs or full stack applications
Experience with some modern distributed systems backend languages like Python or Typescript, or any other object oriented language (Go, Rust, Java, etc.)
Good knowledge of distributed systems architecture from one of more cloud providers, preferable AWS, utilizing infrastructure as code
Experience with both relational databases (Postgres, etc.) and document stores (DynamoDB, mongodb)
Experience with frontend web or app application development
Experience building maintainable and scalable systems
A data-driven approach with strong results and outcome-oriented focus, understanding the value derived from rapidly shipping code and learning/iterating on the results
Strong empathy for our consumers and agents, and a passion for exceeding their expectations
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, connecting directly and effectively with cross-functional technical and non-technical stakeholders at various levels
Ability to decompose complex business problems and communicate solutions succinctly
A passion for learning, continuous improvement, sharing, and working in a team environment
Independent and can manage your own projects and time with ease, all the while setting and managing stakeholder expectations
Bachelor degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field, or equivalent professional experience

Nice To Haves

Experience with agentic AI code generation a plus

Responsibilities

Use technology to create innovation that delights consumers, and agents, and disrupts the industry
Define work and drive technical decisions for complex features in the consumer and agent facing experiences
Collaborate across functional teams to solve business problems, and lead each step of the product development process: from ideation to release; rapidly prototyping, experimenting and delivering solutions that scale to support millions of users
Connect business and consumer problems to proposed technical solutions. Work with product and other stakeholders to rapidly deliver high-impact value and measure using data
Define and evolve the architecture, design and implementation of consumer and agent facing experiences using clean architecture principles.
Make effective and timely technology choices for implementing solutions, often without complete information.
Drive a stable and scalable architecture using modern patterns to deliver a first-class mobile product. Drive adoption of design patterns, coding and quality standards, and software development processes
Help improve code generation and quality by utilizing agentic AI and best practices
Mentor and coach junior engineers