Software Engineer, Sr

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

12d•Hybrid

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 Engineer – News & Insights to join our growing News & Insights team. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape one of Realtor.com’s highest-traffic consumer experiences by building fast, resilient, content-rich products that reach millions of readers and syndication partners. You will help drive the frontend experience while contributing across the full stack, partnering closely with Product, Design, and content stakeholders to build and expand consumer-facing features end to end. We’re looking for someone who wants to own a product, especially the frontend, thrives in highly collaborative environments, and is AI-forward in how they use modern tools to maximize impact. Our platform pairs a React/Next.js frontend with a WordPress + WPGraphQL backend, supported by persisted GraphQL queries and a multi-layered caching architecture. In this role, you’ll help strengthen performance, reliability, developer experience, and the overall quality of a platform that powers one of Realtor.com’s most visible content surfaces. We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to use modern AI coding assistants and LLM-powered workflows effectively to accelerate development, improve quality, and increase velocity, while applying sound engineering judgment to validate outputs for correctness, performance, accessibility, and maintainability. Join a growing team building cutting-edge products in an AI-forward environment by providing frontend expertise and technical ownership. This role is a strong fit for an engineer who wants visible product ownership, meaningful influence on architecture and user experience, and the opportunity to work on a high-scale platform where performance, SEO, accessibility, and editorial velocity all matter.

Requirements

5+ years of web development experience with strong knowledge of modern JavaScript or TypeScript and frameworks such as React and Next.js.
Strong experience building high-quality consumer web experiences and solving problems across both frontend and backend systems.
Solid backend experience in one or more languages such as Node.js, PHP, Python, Java, or Ruby, with comfort designing APIs and reasoning about server-side behavior.
Experience with GraphQL, including schema design, queries, and clients, or a strong API foundation with eagerness to go deep in GraphQL.
Experience using AI-forward development practices and modern tooling to maximize quality and velocity.
Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, modern CSS approaches, responsive layouts, accessibility, and performance optimization.
APIs & Data: GraphQL, persisted queries, schema design, and API integration between frontend systems and CMS platforms.
Performance & Delivery: Core Web Vitals, SEO best practices, SSR, SSG, ISR, caching strategies, and debugging browser or layout issues.
Testing & Tooling: Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, and modern build tooling such as webpack, Babel, or SWC.
Cloud & CI/CD: Familiarity with AWS services and modern CI/CD ecosystems such as CloudFront, ECS/EKS, S3, CircleCI, ArgoCD, or Kubernetes.

Nice To Haves

Wants to own a product, especially the frontend
Extremely collaborative and able to work directly with Product and cross-functional stakeholders
AI-forward, using modern tools to maximize impact
Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts and trade-offs clearly to diverse audiences.
Attention to detail and a commitment to performance, reliability, accessibility, and great user experiences.
Growth mindset and comfort working in ambiguity while helping shape short- and long-term technical direction.
Direct WordPress experience is not required. What matters most is that you are a strong full-stack engineer with a frontend-forward mindset who is comfortable working in backend codebases regardless of language.

Responsibilities

Build and expand consumer-facing features across the full stack, with a strong emphasis on delivering high-quality frontend experiences in React and Next.js.
Create modular, performant, responsive, and accessible components and pages in collaboration with Design System, Product, and content teams.
Take ownership of the user experience for key product surfaces and help evolve the frontend architecture, standards, and best practices.
Develop and extend the platform’s data layer, including GraphQL queries and schema, persisted-query workflows, Node.js services, and the API surface between the frontend and CMS.
Work comfortably across frontend and backend systems to solve product and platform challenges end to end.
Improve developer experience and platform health through intuitive APIs, strong documentation, observability, and reduced operational friction.
Own and improve caching and rendering architecture, including ISR, CDN and edge caching, and object caching, to keep content fresh while serving it quickly at scale.
Drive SEO and Core Web Vitals improvements on a high-traffic, search-driven content property where page speed and discoverability directly impact the business.
Ensure code is well-tested using unit, component, and end-to-end testing practices.
Provide technical guidance through code reviews, design discussions, and day-to-day collaboration across engineering and business partners.
Research opportunities to improve existing systems and processes, build proofs of concept, and communicate technical ideas and trade-offs clearly to both engineering and business audiences.
Contribute to team planning, roadmap discussions, Agile ceremonies, and incident-response or operational practices.