Staff Backend Software Engineer, RDC Next

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

12h•Hybrid

About The Position

At Realtor.com, we are building products that empower millions of home buyers, renters, and real estate professionals. Our mission is to simplify the home buying/selling process and help more people achieve the dream of home ownership. We are looking for a collaborative and customer-focused Staff Backend Software Engineer to join our RDC Next team. This team creates innovative solutions across the real-estate ecosystem, fostering deeper connections between industry players and consumers.

Requirements

8+ years experience in software architecture and backend systems development.
Proficiency in modern distributed languages such as Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Java.
Experience with AWS (or similar) and a commitment to operational health.
Expertise in relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL stores (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB).
A track record of building scalable APIs, event-driven architectures, and integrations.
A focus on maintaining system health through monitoring, logging, and tracing.
Curiosity or experience in building AI platforms and agentic workflows.
Ability to break down complex problems and share solutions clearly with both technical and non-technical partners.
A data-informed approach balanced with strong empathy for the people using our products.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for our backend ecosystem, architecting the core pillars of our platform.
Work directly with Product Managers to deeply understand product requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and ensure the implementation aligns with both user needs and technical feasibility.
Lead the design, implementation, and testing of high-scale content ingestion pipelines and user-facing APIs that power the consumer and agent experience.
Shape our AI platform strategy, integrating machine learning models and agentic AI into production workflows to transform the industry.
Design reliable architectures for 3rd party integrations, ensuring seamless data exchange with external real-estate services and partners.
Build and scale a notification system capable of delivering real-time, meaningful updates to millions of users.
Set the standards for infrastructure, observability, and monitoring, ensuring our distributed systems are resilient, transparent, and scalable.
Guide technical decisions for complex features, lead rapid prototyping, and evolve the architecture using Clean Architecture principles.
Act as a mentor to junior engineers, encouraging a culture of continuous learning and high-quality software development.