Staff Backend Software Engineer, RDC Next
About The Position
Realtor.com® has been a leader in online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance. The platform aims to simplify the home buying/selling process and help more people achieve home ownership by providing an easy-to-use, understandable, and decision-friendly user experience. The company is on a mission to empower people to find their way home by breaking barriers, making connections, and building confidence. The RDC Next team, which this role joins, focuses on creating innovative solutions across the real-estate ecosystem to foster 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.
Benefits
- Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
- Family forming benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Time Off
- 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
- Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
- Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
- 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
- Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
