This is not a standard Senior SDE role. We are looking for mobile product builders: engineers who can take a problem from an ambiguous idea to a shipped, instrumented, and continually improving mobile experience product.
In this role, you will help define the problem, shape the solution with product and design partners, build across the iOS, Android and supporting services when needed, ship with strong operational discipline, measure what happened, and improve it over time. We’re looking for engineers who combine strong technical judgment with product sense, business context, and a modern AI-native way of working. AI tools are part of normal execution here—for exploration, coding, testing, debugging, and analysis—but ownership does not move to the tool. You remain accountable for quality, correctness, customer experience, and results. Success in this role looks like turning a fuzzy ask into a clear plan, making tradeoffs explicit, shipping with the right safeguards, and learning from what happens in production.
You Will Get ToTurn ambiguous product ideas into clear plans, tradeoffs, success measures, and shippable solutions.
Shape mobile experiences across iOS and Android with strong product and platform judgment.
Partner closely with product, design, data, and engineering peers to refine requirements and improve the customer experience.
Build primarily in native mobile codebases while contributing to backend or API layers when needed to deliver the full experience.
Launch features with an appropriate approach to testing, rollout, monitoring, and risk management.
Follow features into production, evaluate performance and customer behavior, and iterate based on what you learn.
Strengthen the team through code review, design feedback, mentoring, and high engineering standards.
You have significant experience building and shipping production mobile applications on iOS or Android, with strong depth in one platform and the ability or willingness to contribute to the other.
You have a track record of owning features end to end, from ambiguous problem definition through launch and post-launch iteration.
You bring strong product and business judgment and can connect technical decisions to customer impact.
You have practical experience using AI-assisted development tools or automation in your day-to-day work, while maintaining accountability for quality, correctness, and customer experience.
You collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners, including product managers, designers, data partners, and other engineers.
You are comfortable working across the stack when needed, including mobile clients, APIs, services, and data-informed decision-making.
You bring strong operational discipline, including experience with production support, monitoring, debugging, and using signals to guide improvements.
Here at Zillow, we value the experience and perspective of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds. We encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences.
At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help customers navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company that's reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.
Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.
No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.
Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Skills Required
- Experience building and shipping production mobile applications on iOS or Android
- Track record of owning features from definition to post-launch iteration
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools
- Strong operational discipline and experience with production support
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, and data partners
Zillow Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zillow and has not been reviewed or approved by Zillow.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, and robust mental-health resources with coaching and app-based support. Wellness reimbursements and wellbeing tools reinforce a strong emphasis on overall health.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental benefits are noted as fully paid and expansive, including bonding leave, ramp-back options, and a new-baby stipend. Additional family-forming support such as fertility coverage, adoption/surrogacy assistance, breast milk shipping, and backup childcare deepens this strength.
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Flexible Benefits — A distributed-first work model offers broad location flexibility, with home-office support and short-term international work options. This flexibility pairs with generous PTO, holidays, sick leave, and a sabbatical program as key parts of the total package.
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What We Do
Join our mission to give the people power to unlock life’s next chapter. Our homes are the heartbeat of our lives, and we believe that finding a home shouldn’t be so hard in today’s always-on world. That’s why we’re reimagining the traditional rules of real estate to make it easier than ever to move from one home to the next. Our journey began nearly 15 years ago with a handful of employees and one big idea: to make it radically easier for people to move. We began by helping people understand and track their homes with the Zestimate, our proprietary algorithm, and then with advanced technology and valuable connections with real estate professionals. Today, Zillow has become a household name. People are more likely to search for “Zillow” than “real estate,” and our name is often used as a verb. While other industries have ushered in a new era of convenience, the time for seamless and convenient real estate experience is now. This is our next chapter as a company. We’re looking for smart, passionate adventurers to join us as we reimagine the real estate transaction and change the way people buy, sell, rent and finance their homes.









