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.
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.
What You'll Do:
As a Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for our backend ecosystem, architecting the core pillars of our platform.
- Product Partnership: 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.
- Architect Core Systems: Lead the design, implementation, and testing of high-scale content ingestion pipelines and user-facing APIs that power the consumer and agent experience.
- Advance AI Innovation: Shape our AI platform strategy, integrating machine learning models and agentic AI into production workflows to transform the industry.
- Expand the Ecosystem: Design reliable architectures for 3rd party integrations, ensuring seamless data exchange with external real-estate services and partners.
- Ensure High-Reliability Communication: Build and scale a notification system capable of delivering real-time, meaningful updates to millions of users.
- Operational Excellence: Set the standards for infrastructure, observability, and monitoring, ensuring our distributed systems are resilient, transparent, and scalable.
- Collaborative Leadership: Guide technical decisions for complex features, lead rapid prototyping, and evolve the architecture using Clean Architecture principles.
- Mentor & Support: Act as a mentor to junior engineers, encouraging a culture of continuous learning and high-quality software development.
What You'll Bring:
- 8+ years experience in software architecture and backend systems development.
- Backend Expertise: Proficiency in modern distributed languages such as Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Java.
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Experience with AWS (or similar) and a commitment to operational health.
- Data Modeling: Expertise in relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL stores (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB).
- System Design: A track record of building scalable APIs, event-driven architectures, and integrations.
- Observability Mindset: A focus on maintaining system health through monitoring, logging, and tracing.
- AI Interest: Curiosity or experience in building AI platforms and agentic workflows.
- Communication: Ability to break down complex problems and share solutions clearly with both technical and non-technical partners.
- Data-Driven: A data-informed approach balanced with strong empathy for the people using our products.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a 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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