Staff Fullstack Software Engineer

Realtor.com Careers•Austin, TX

23h•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. Would you like to work in an engineering environment that rewards your passion? The New Constructions engineering team offers a remarkable opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research and development of highly scalable, data-driven, consumer-facing solutions. Our aim is to empower a diverse and inclusive range of consumers who are seeking their dream home. As the leading provider of builder listings in the US, the Realtor New Construction team continuously brings forth innovative solutions to enhance accessibility and expedite consumers' journey towards homeownership. Whether it's building the technological infrastructure that enables the development of vibrant communities or the construction of hyper-customized green houses, we are actively seeking engineers who are driven by making a tangible impact. Collaborate and learn from world-class talent who foster a culture of data-driven decision-making, experimentation, and continuous learning. Leverage the latest technologies, including Typescript, React, Node.js, NestJS, NextJS, GraphQL, AWS, AI tools, and more, to accelerate your professional growth and achieve new heights in your career. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to assume the role of technical lead for the New Homes team. This individual will be responsible for defining the multi-year technical roadmap for the consumer New Homes experience, ensuring the health and strategic evolution of a mission-critical platform connecting millions of home shoppers with builders, and elevating engineering standards across the entire New Homes organization.

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

Work collaboratively in teams composed of Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers
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