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.
- Help define Realtor.com’s target architecture and multi-year technology strategy across web, mobile, search, APIs, identity, data, machine learning, AI, and developer platforms.
- Translate business and product priorities into scalable, secure, and practical technical roadmaps.
- Identify architectural risks, platform gaps, modernization opportunities, and areas of unnecessary complexity.
- Establish lightweight standards and reference architectures that improve consistency without slowing teams down.
- Advise senior engineering and product leaders on major technology investments and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Provide technical leadership for high-impact programs spanning multiple products, platforms, and engineering organizations.
- Define end-to-end architectures, key interfaces, decision points, and implementation paths.
- Remain engaged from technical discovery through delivery, rollout, and operational adoption.
- Step into critical incidents, performance issues, security concerns, or architectural escalations where senior technical judgment is required.
- Drive alignment when requirements are ambiguous or ownership is distributed across teams.
- Provide architectural leadership for large-scale search, ranking, recommendations, personalization, and location-based experiences.
- Guide the design of data pipelines, feature platforms, model-serving systems, experimentation frameworks, and real-time decisioning capabilities.
- Partner with product, data science, machine learning, and engineering teams to move models reliably from experimentation into production.
- Establish patterns for model evaluation, observability, explainability, cost management, privacy, and responsible AI.
- Help evolve search and ML platforms that improve relevance, engagement, conversion, and customer trust.
- Guide architecture across APIs, distributed services, event-driven systems, identity, cloud infrastructure, and shared platforms.
- Improve service boundaries, data ownership, observability, resilience, scalability, and failure isolation.
- Partner with security teams to embed security, privacy, and compliance into system design.
- Strengthen service-level objectives, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and incident readiness.
- Turn recurring operational issues into durable architectural improvements rather than repeated tactical fixes.
- Mentor Principal Engineers, Staff Engineers, architects, engineering managers, and emerging technical leaders.
- Raise the quality of design reviews, technical proposals, architecture decisions, incident analysis, and engineering documentation.
- Build alignment across teams through technical forums, reference implementations, and shared engineering practices.
- Communicate complex technical topics clearly to executives, product leaders, and engineering teams.
- Influence through evidence, clarity, trust, and strong technical credibility rather than positional authority.
- Extensive software engineering experience (15+ years), including leadership as a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect, or equivalent senior technical role.
- A proven record of shaping architecture across large, complex, high-scale engineering organizations.
- Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, APIs, data systems, observability, security, and reliability engineering.
- Strong knowledge of search systems, ranking, recommendations, personalization, and high-volume data platforms.
- Experience building and operating machine learning or generative AI systems in production.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple organizations without direct authority.
- Strong judgment in balancing speed, customer value, operational risk, cost, and long-term architectural health.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- A history of mentoring senior engineers and raising technical standards across an organization.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 15+ years of related experience
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. Our employees work three days in our Austin headquarters 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 well-being 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 degree 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.
Skills Required
- 15+ years of extensive software engineering experience
- Leadership experience as a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect, or equivalent senior technical role
- Experience shaping architecture across large, complex, high-scale engineering organizations
- Deep experience with distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, APIs, data systems, observability, security, and reliability engineering
- Strong knowledge of search systems, ranking, recommendations, personalization, and high-volume data platforms
- Experience building and operating machine learning or generative AI systems in production
- Ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple organizations without direct authority
- Strong judgment balancing speed, customer value, operational risk, cost, and architectural health
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- History of mentoring senior engineers and raising technical standards
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 15+ years of related experience
What We Do
For years, millions of home shoppers have turned to realtor.com® to find their dream home. Operated by Move, Inc., realtor.com® offers a comprehensive list of for-sale properties, as well as the information and tools to make informed real estate decisions. Today, more than ever, realtor.com® is The Home of Home Search℠. Realtor.com® also offers homeowners a bevy of useful tools and resources through the My Home℠ dashboard. My Home℠ dashboard allows property owners to manage their home like the important investment it is by tracking their home’s value over time, researching and managing home improvements, and scouting other similar properties in the neighborhood.
Why Work With Us
The way home begins with you. With a diverse team of experts alongside you, you’ll help us reach new heights at the forefront of the digital real estate space. Bring your extensive knowledge and deep expertise and collaborate with other passionate visionaries to lead our industry and revolutionize the way people find home, in every form.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Enjoy the flexibility of our hybrid policy—simply choose whichever three days a week work best for you to come into any of our offices.
