Staff Fullstack Software Engineer

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Realtor.com® is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the technical lead for the New Homes team. This role involves defining the multi-year technical roadmap for the consumer New Homes experience, ensuring the health and strategic evolution of a critical platform connecting millions of home shoppers with builders, and elevating engineering standards across the New Homes organization. The New Constructions engineering team focuses on cutting-edge research and development of highly scalable, data-driven, consumer-facing solutions to empower a diverse range of consumers seeking their dream home. As the leading provider of builder listings in the US, the team innovates to enhance accessibility and expedite the homeownership journey. Engineers will collaborate with world-class talent in a data-driven, experimental, and continuous learning environment, leveraging technologies like Typescript, React, Node.js, NestJS, NextJS, GraphQL, AWS, and AI tools.

Requirements

3 or more years of experience as technical lead
8 or more years of experience developing software in one or more modern programming languages, frameworks, cloud technologies, and libraries (e.g. Typescript, Node.js, NextJS, NestJS, AWS, ReactJS)
Driving AI adoption and tooling
Experience implementing a variety of Amazon Web Services
Experience maintaining operational excellence, providing team leadership, and guiding operational support across multiple teams during large scale initiatives or rollouts
A driven engineer that is motivated to drive improvement of operational procedures and processes in a fast-paced environment
Able to identify needed change and make improvements toward operational scripts, services, and the underlying technologies
Self motivated and can manage projects and time independently with ease, all the while setting and managing stakeholder expectations
Ability to technically lead and guide other team members to deliver and make operation improvements
Understanding of computer science fundamentals, schema design, and best practices
Strong software operational instincts: meaningful and deeply-rooted opinions about sound quality/speed trade-offs, data quality, and testing
Knowledge of proper use of source revision-control systems (git, svn, cvs, etc) is a must
A strong fundamental understanding of SQL and RDBMS technologies
Experience with build, test and deployment automation technologies
Extensive experience monitoring for SLAs, alerting, and remediating service disruptions
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build good working relationships are musts
Four-year college or university degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline

Nice To Haves

Experience with web languages, frameworks and libraries such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, AngularJS and D3 is a plus

Responsibilities

Own the architecture and multi-quarter technical roadmap for the New Homes consumer stack, encompassing the frontend (React/Next.js), GraphQL subgraph (Apollo GraphQL), backend API (Node.js, AWS), and supporting data pipelines (Kafka, Aurora, Prism, Snowflake)
Lead the strategic implementation of the AI adoption roadmap for New Homes Consumer, including initiatives such as RealAnswers, AI-generated summaries, AI video, and AI-assisted search, with a focus on balancing experimentation velocity with cost-efficiency, quality, and rigorous monitoring
Drive the evolution of our New Homes pipeline
Coach, mentor, and guide teams on industry standards and best practices to support the growth of our engineers
Have a strong focus on accuracy, completeness, reliability and relevance
Perform corrective and adaptive maintenance on software systems including coding bug fixes and enhancements and undertaking system analyses and technology migrations
Serve as a consultative technical resource for customer care and business teams
Guide the team in anticipation of extensibility needs and help them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes
Actively seek out new technologies, evaluate them and make recommendations to integrate them in our solutions and products
When problems are detected, drive to the root cause, communicate with the right parties and contribute to the resolution until the issue is resolved
Work in a product development process that is primarily Agile/Scrum