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.
Top Reasons to Apply:
1. Hands-On Cloud & DevOps Ownership
You’ll own the infrastructure, not just the code. You will design AWS data pipelines and automate the toolchain (using Lambda, ECS, and CloudFormation) to enable instant service provisioning and zero-friction deployments.
2. AI-Driven Engineering Culture
The team actively rewards engineers who leverage AI tools as a performance multiplier. You’ll be encouraged to use AI to write better code faster and accelerate development in a forward-thinking environment.
3. Full-Stack Scale & Impact
You will own the end-to-end architecture for the top builder listing site in the US. This means bridging complex AWS data pipelines with high-velocity, SEO-optimized React/NextJS frontends handling massive traffic.
What You’ll Do:
- Work collaboratively in teams composed of Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers
- Taking ownership of the overall architecture and development of highly scalable ReactJS frontend application that talk to Node JS API services and a variety of AWS resources
- Implement dynamic and interactive pages using ReactJS by consuming REST and GraphQL services.
- This is a high traffic, high velocity application so key skills will involve applying engineering best practices, SEO, page load performance, effective testing strategies
- Build and optimize our backend services around fetching and processing data efficiently
- Design and operationalize data pipelines using advanced data architectures deployed on Amazon Web Services
- Optimize our developer toolchain to support instant provisioning of new services and infrastructure, fully automate deployment, and minimize development friction
- Work in a product development process that is primarily Agile/Scrum
What You'll Bring:
- 5 or more years experience developing software in one or more modern programming languages, frameworks, cloud technologies, and libraries (e.g. Typescript, Node.js, NextJS, NestJS, AWS, ReactJS) and two years of front end development experience
- A driven software engineer that is motivated to build great products, great codebase in a fast-paced environment, and leverage AI tooling as a multiplier function.
- Able to take requirements and build something that’s simple yet impactful, minimalistic yet beautiful, extensible yet maintainable.
- Independent and can manage your own projects and time with ease, all the while setting and managing stakeholder expectations
- Strong communication skills with a growth and learning mindset
- Experience with developing complex software systems using modern frameworks, tools, and systems
- Experience working across the full technical stack, delivering quality code on both frontend and backend
- Strong analytical thinking and ability to make data-driven decisions
- Attention to detail, great sense of design, and commitment to beautiful user experiences
- Experience building single page applications
- Experience implementing progressive web application and service workers
- Expert in client-side Javascript, CSS/SaSS and HTML
- Exposure to cloud-based architectures, development, and deployment
- Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS Cloudformation, Lambda, EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, CronJob, Secret Manager
- Understanding of computer science fundamentals, schema design, and best practices
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/related field or equivalent professional experience
How We Work:
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.
How We Reward You:
Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:
- 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
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®
Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
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