These budgets appear throughout the Zillow app (search, filters, listing pages), immediately showing whether a home is “within BuyAbility” and what steps a shopper can take to close the gap. By providing personalized insights and a seamless in-app experience, BuyAbility guides users from initial interest to mortgage-ready, increasing the likelihood they will choose ZHL for their financing needs.
Looking ahead, we’re rolling out:
- Soft credit pulls (Experian) for sharper affordability estimates.
- Financial-viability questions that help predict readiness to transact.
- An in-app pre-approval step that turns a budget into verified buying power.
- Push notification campaigns that re-engage shoppers when market shifts (e.g., interest rate drops, credit changes) improve their buying power—or when new homes within budget hit the market.
- Design research shows that renters and first-time buyers, particularly from underrepresented communities, benefit from low-friction, transparent guidance. BuyAbility is being built to nurture these shoppers until they’re mortgage-ready—and then deliver just-in-time human support to help them close with confidence.About the role
We’re hiring a Senior Mobile Engineering Manager to lead a team of iOS and Android engineers that power BuyAbility in the Zillow app. You’ll partner closely with product, design, marketing, data science, and back-end engineers to deliver seamless affordability and engagement features that carry customers from budgeting to closing.
You’ll play a critical role in scaling the team, modernizing our mobile tech stack, and shaping cross-platform experiences that make home buying more accessible and transparent.
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 addition to a competitive base salary and benefits, this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.
Who you areWhat you'll do:
Own the mobile roadmap and execution for iOS and Android, partnering across disciplines to deliver user-centered features.
Maximize team effectiveness in delivering value—set clear goals, drive iterative delivery. Improve coordination with back-end partners and reduce cross-team dependencies where possible to unlock faster, more autonomous execution.
Launch secure, seamless login with Auth0, passkeys, and biometric MFA.
Stand up real-time analytics using a unified SDK for mobile + back-end instrumentation and fast experimentation.
Roll out personalized push notifications that nudge users when buying power improves due to credit or interest rate changes, or when new listings fall within their affordability range.
Hire, mentor, and scale a growing team of mobile engineers.
Set clear career paths and build a high-trust, inclusive culture that promotes learning and autonomy.
Collaborate with other mobile teams in Zillow Home Loans to align roadmaps and share best practices.
Champion high standards for code quality, automated testing, performance, and on-call resilience.
Drive adoption of contract testing and agentic end-to-end tests to ensure reliable service integration and minimize regressions.
Evolve shared, server-driven native components for scalable UI and logic reuse across the Zillow app.
Maintain harmony across mobile, web, and APIs using modern GraphQL patterns.
Zillow is reimagining real estate to make it easier to unlock life’s next chapter.
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 is helping people move from dreaming to transacting — and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making this vision a reality.
Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, and a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging. 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 in 2022 list, Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, honoring the Best Places to Work in 2022, Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index 2022, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index and Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality 2022, 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, and gender identity. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.
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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.
