Senior Software Developer - Conversational Search

This position is a hybrid role requiring employees to work from our headquarters location in Seattle, WA every Tuesday and Wednesday, and remote all other days.

Our Conversational Search team is building Redfin’s next generation artificial intelligence powered home search experience, redefining how millions of users discover homes. This is one of Redfin’s most ambitious and visible product initiatives for 2026, combining conversational UI, LLM powered reasoning, and high performance backend systems to create a fast, intuitive and deeply helpful way to search for homes. Because this new search paradigm attracts significant engagement and traffic, performance, reliability, and thoughtful UX design are critical. By joining the team, you’ll work at the intersection of AI, product design, and large-scale distributed systems to create a fundamentally better way for people to search for homes.

If you’re excited about building highly polished, user-facing products, experimenting rapidly, and helping define the future of search at Redfin, this is the team.

Who We Are

• High impact and high visibility. We’re building Redfin’s new AI-powered search experience, a core product surface used by millions of homebuyers.

• Next-generation search. We design conversational UI, natural language understanding, and intelligent agent behaviors that let users search in ways traditional filters never could.

• Full stack ownership. Our teams own everything from backend data pipelines, LLM integrations, and agent reasoning layers to the polished web and mobile UX people interact with every day.

• Performance and reliability obsessed. Conversational sessions attract heavy user engagement; our systems must be fast, accurate, and resilient at scale.

• AI-forward, customer-obsessed. We push the boundaries of what AI can do for home search while delivering clear, visible value to users on day one.

The Role

• You will develop responsive, resilient, scalable, and high-quality conversational experiences using React, Java, AWS, Sierra AI and various other tools/libraries.

• You will balance the trade-offs between complex infrastructure investments and quick, pragmatic solutions to meet specific business needs.

• You will collaborate with other engineering and product stakeholders to define, design, and lead the development of significant multi-person projects.

• You will mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and advocating for best practices.

• You will stay up to date with the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem and help evaluate new tools, models, and frameworks.

About You

• 5+ years of professional full-stack software development experience, specifically in React and Java.

• You’re excited about LLMs, agent development, conversational UX, and emerging AI technologies.

• You have experience with modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript).

• Proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high-performance web applications.

• You love elegant interfaces that can tell stories and inspire trust.

• You are a teacher and a mentor: you have the leadership skills (and the patience) to improve the developers around you.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment, handle ambiguity, and empathize with customers.

• You are eager to help us in our mission to create a fundamentally better real estate experience for our customers.

Technologies We Use

• Java

• JavaScript, ReactJS

• SQL, Hibernate, PostgreSQL

• AWS, Redis Cache, Kafka

• CSS, HTML

• Kubernetes

• Production monitoring tools

• GraphQL

• Sierra AI SDK, OpenAI APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable disclosure requirements.

Base Pay Range: $150,800.00 - 203,900.00. Actual base pay will depend on varying circumstances, including the position, location, individual qualifications, market finances, and other operational business needs. Compensation may also include bonuses and equity.

We offer a generous benefits package including flexible vacation that supports the importance of time away from work for rest and relaxation, 12 paid holidays, paid parental leave, sick leave (accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked), medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits, flexible spending account, health savings account, life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, Employee Assistance Programs, and 401(k) employer match.#LI-Hybrid

Redfin is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce.

A diverse, inclusive culture is vital to Redfin's mission of making real estate better for people from all walks of life. We’re proud that Redfin is a place where different points of view and backgrounds are encouraged and respected. We constantly strive to build a company that reflects the world around us, based on our conviction that pursuing and developing talent of all types is the right way for a business to thrive over the long haul.

Redfin provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you need accommodation in the application or recruitment process because of a disability or special need, please contact [email protected]

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Redfin accepts applications on an ongoing basis.