Senior Applications Engineer

About the teamThis is an opportunity to join Zillow Group's Enterprise Application Engineering team! We use our enterprise engineering expertise to architect, build, and support innovative solutions using both SaaS application functionality and custom engineered solutions. Our team builds and supports Workday Integrations, Extend Applications, Employee Data Services, Enterprise Search, Intranet, Gen AI Assistants, and other internal tools supporting Cloud HQ.
The team has a culture of engineering and operational excellence, ensuring that all our solutions are well-designed and resilient. We collaborate closely with application analysts, engineers, and product teams to deliver these solutions.

About the role

As a Senior Application Engineer in the Enterprise Engineering team, you will be instrumental in accelerating our pace and efficiency by designing and building solutions that create extensible and scalable platforms & services used across Zillow. You will lay the groundwork for some of our most crucial automation systems that empower your colleagues to excel and enable Zillow to scale.

Our mission is to create delightful experiences for our internal customers. In this role, you will innovate, drive solutioning, and complete that mission. We are seeking an experienced Application Engineer to help us advance our mission to Zillow 2.0!

As a Senior Applications Engineer, you will:

• Authoring effective architectures and delivering critical bodies of code that contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of employee-centric technical solutions in Workday, Gen AI Agents, Enterprise Search, and other SaaS products.

• Influencing and shaping the enterprise technology roadmap, architecture, and design standards, working closely with other Seniors to design, adapt, and grow your architecture to respond to changing business needs.

• Cultivating a sophisticated network of third-party tools into a unified, mature, and scalable platform, optimizing code for better scalability, performance, and readability.

• Continuously enhancing system performance and reliability, diagnosing and resolving unforeseen operational events, and ensuring they don't happen again.

• Collaborating with system analysts and other engineering teams to build and test comprehensive solutions.

• Ensuring that your team’s work is rigorously tested using repeatable, automated patterns.

• Operating within an Agile/Scrum framework, coordinating closely with Product & Engineering teams to deliver value across multiple services or key components.

• Participating in a team on-call rotation to troubleshoot and resolve the most difficult and critical issues with our tools.

• Own the enterprise technology roadmap and design standards, collaborate with senior team members, and adjust your architectural strategies to meet evolving business requirements.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $158,200.00 - $252,800.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Who you are

• Proven experience designing, developing, and integrating SaaS applications across Enterprise technology infrastructure.

• You are familiar with enterprise systems like Workday, ServiceNow, Active Directory, Gen AI agents, etc.

• You are deeply familiar with SQL, REST/SOAP, Graph API, Workday Studio, Workday Orchestration, Mulesoft

• You have experience in one or more languages (e.g., JavaScript, Python), with the interest and aim to learn additional tools and technologies.

• You have experience designing, building, and deploying scalable end-user applications, preferably in AWS, optimizing code for better scalability, performance, and readability.

• You exhibit a strong sense of ownership, consistently and effectively communicating with both technical and non-technical staff.

• Your experience spans the entire software development lifecycle, including alignment to coding standards, conducting code reviews, leading source control, supervising build processes, and operational experience.

• You proactively engage in identifying and proposing initiatives aimed at enhancing the performance and efficiency of existing systems, setting the standard for dashboards, metrics, alarms, and run books.

Get to know us

Zillow is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.

As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help make it easier to move. The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.

Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages as well as parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. We’re also setting the standard for work experiences of the future, where our employees are supported in doing their best work and living a flexible, well-balanced life. But don’t just take our word for it. Read recent reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index, and TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

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.

Applicants who receive job offers from Zillow Group will be asked to sign a Proprietary Rights Agreement which includes confidentiality, intellectual property assignment, customer and employee non-solicitation, and non-competition provisions. If you are contacted for a role at Zillow Group and wish to review a copy of the Proprietary Rights Agreement prior to receiving an offer, you may request a copy from your Recruiter.