Software Engineer, Sr

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

5h•Hybrid

About The Position

Realtor.com® is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – News & Insights to join their growing News & Insights team. This role offers 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. The engineer will 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. The platform pairs a React/Next.js frontend with a WordPress + WPGraphQL backend, supported by persisted GraphQL queries and a multi-layered caching architecture. The role involves strengthening performance, reliability, developer experience, and the overall quality of a platform that powers one of Realtor.com’s most visible content surfaces. The company emphasizes leveraging modern AI coding assistants and LLM-powered workflows to accelerate development, improve quality, and increase velocity, while applying sound engineering judgment to validate outputs. This is an opportunity for an engineer who wants visible product ownership, meaningful influence on architecture and user experience, and the chance to work on a high-scale platform where performance, SEO, accessibility, and editorial velocity are critical.

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

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.