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Realtor.com® is an open real estate marketplace built for everyone.
The Role
Build and operate high-traffic consumer and partner products across backend services, APIs, frontend applications, infrastructure, databases, and DevOps. Responsibilities include delivering tested full-stack features, managing observability and reliability, supporting incident readiness, securing sensitive data, integrating third-party systems, adopting AI-assisted development tools, and leading cross-functional delivery. Work may involve real estate, mortgage, rental, marketplace, or financial services products.
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About The Role:
We are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our high-performance engineering organization as a full-time, hands-on individual contributor. In this role, you will be embedded within a cross-functional team owning critical segments of our consumer ecosystem.
Our engineering organization is structured so that each domain team owns its vertical stack end-to-end—from backend microservices and APIs through frontend and DevOps. We are looking for an engineer with genuine depth across all layers of the stack who can move seamlessly between backend logic and rich frontend experiences, contributing independently within their first few weeks.
Beyond technical skills, we want someone who is innovative, proactive, and self-driven—an engineer who actively seeks out better tools, raises quality standards, and delivers without waiting for direction. We place a premium on self-learners who challenge the status quo, take genuine pride in the reliability of what they ship, and comfortably navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
Potential Teams you will get to work on:
1. New Constructions
- The Focus: Powering the leading builder listing platform in the US, empowering a diverse range of consumers to discover and customize their dream homes.
- What You’ll Work On: Building hyper-customized web experiences for vibrant new communities, optimizing high-velocity frontends for substantial traffic and search engine optimization (SEO), enhancing backend services, modernizing infrastructure, expanding automated test suites, and engineering automated developer toolchains for instantaneous cloud service provisioning.
2. Mortgage & Financial Services
- The Focus: Building the digital future of home financing by creating seamless, secure, and transparent financial tools for buyers and lenders.
- What You’ll Work On: High-traffic loan origination flows, real-time rate and affordability calculators, secure lead capture systems, compliance-aware data architecture, and deep integrations with third-party lender partner APIs.
3. Rentals Post-Lead & B2B Partnerships
- The Focus: Powering what happens after the lead - building the products and backend services that turn renter interest into completed applications and drive rental revenue for property managers and independent landlords.
- What You’ll Work On: Partner-facing portals and promoted-listing products, external partner integrations (application and listing providers), GraphQL services and backend infrastructure at scale, revenue-diversification features, and the data pipelines behind partner performance and reporting.
What You’ll Do:
- Product Delivery: Design, build, and maintain high-traffic features and partner integrations across the full vertical stack (backend, APIs, frontend, infrastructure, databases).
- Engineering Excellence: Write well-tested, production-ready code. Own and enforce test automation standards (unit, integration, E2E) in line with an engineering-owned quality model.
- Operational Ownership: Take full accountability for the operational quality, observability, and reliability of your services—including setting SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response readiness.
- Data & Security: Ensure data integrity, secure engineering practices, and compliance-aware design when handling sensitive consumer, financial, and high-volume marketplace data.
- Modern Workflow Innovation: Leverage and champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Windsurf, Portkey, Gemini) to optimize development workflows.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Drive project delivery with strong personal ownership—managing scope, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies. Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders to build trust quickly.
What You'll Bring:
- Experience: Bring 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems and high-traffic, consumer-facing products.
- True Full-Stack Capability: Demonstrate proven depth across backend services, RESTful/GraphQL APIs, modern frontend frameworks (React or equivalent), and cloud/DevOps.
- Backend Expertise: Utilize your strong experience with Node.js and microservice architectures.
- Domain Background: Leverage your experience building search, marketplace, listing-based, or financial services products (e.g., loan application flows, rate calculators, lender/partner API integrations).
- Operational Rigor: Take direct ownership of production infrastructure, including observability, SLOs, and incident management.
- Execution: Apply strong project management skills to independently drive features from scoping through delivery in an agile, matrixed environment.
- Education: Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- AI Tools: Hands-on experience integrating AI-assisted development tools into your daily workflow.
- Data Architecture: Familiarity with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS) and data pipelines (e.g., Snowflake, S3, Aurora, reverse ETL).
- Cloud & DevOps: Experience deploying and operating services on AWS using Kubernetes and containerization.
- Advanced API Design: Familiarity with federated GraphQL architecture.
- Compliance Awareness: Understanding of financial data sensitivity and compliance considerations relevant to consumer financial products (e.g., RESPA, TILA awareness).
- Culture: Comfort working in a data- and metrics-driven engineering culture aligned with performance KPIs.
How We Work:
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work four or more days in our offices, 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 wellbeing 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 degreed 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®
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems and high-traffic consumer-facing products
- Proven full-stack experience across backend services, REST or GraphQL APIs, modern frontend frameworks such as React, and cloud or DevOps
- Strong experience with Node.js and microservice architectures
- Experience building search, marketplace, listing-based, or financial services products
- Experience owning production infrastructure, observability, SLOs, and incident management
- Strong project management skills and ability to independently drive features from scoping through delivery
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- Hands-on experience integrating AI-assisted development tools into daily workflows
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, including Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS/SNS, and data pipelines
- Experience deploying and operating services on AWS using Kubernetes and containerization
- Familiarity with federated GraphQL architecture
- Understanding of financial data sensitivity and compliance considerations, including RESPA and TILA awareness
- Comfort working in a data- and metrics-driven engineering culture aligned with performance KPIs
Realtor.com Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside mental-health resources, telemedicine, reproductive care, and gender-affirming and fertility/family-building benefits. This breadth is consistently positioned as a core strength of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, plus backup child and adult care, lactation support, adoption assistance, and family-support tools. These offerings are presented as a standout element of the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is portrayed as generous or flexible, with paid holidays and sick leave noted across materials. This flexibility is highlighted as contributing to better work-life balance.
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The Company
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.
Typical time on-site:
3 days a week
