Software Developer II - 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.

Redfin is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data, beautiful software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying and selling process. Get ready to dive headfirst into our award-winning website and mobile apps, solving complex business problems in a highly visible, customer-centric way. If you value doing great work in a collaborative environment, join our team!

The Search Personalization team is redefining how people connect with homes by creating a personalized and engaging search experience that helps millions of users find their dream home. We power some of Redfin’s most visible features—including the Homepage, login and registration systems, and home discovery tools like Favorites and Saved Searches. By joining Search Personalization, you’ll help shape one of the most impactful parts of the search journey, building experiences that make home discovery simpler, smarter, and more personal.

Who We Are

• High impact and high visibility. We develop and maintain some of the highest visibility systems on redfin.com. Our work serves millions of customers daily and is the essential top of the funnel for Redfin’s businesses.

• Full Stack Full Ownership. From data pipelines to the user interface, we own our features end to end.

• Performance is critical. Because our features attract so much traffic, everything we develop must meet strict performance criteria. We dictate performance initiatives and best practices for the rest of the company because we have the most expertise and experience.  

The Role

• You will develop responsive, resilient, scalable, and high-quality software using React, Java, AWS, 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 develop projects.

• You will mentor and guide other junior engineers

• You will use approved AI code generation tools  to document, architect, and create code

About You

• 3+ years of professional full stack software development experience, developing full-stack, customer-facing applications.

• 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 have experience using AI code generation tools tools such as GitHub CoPilot, Anthropic Claude Code, Cursor, or similar.

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

• You’re curious and a life-long learner: you’re willing to take risks and champion new ideas.

• 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

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation packages with a salary, bonuses, and restricted stock grants

• Generous benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, fully paid family leave and paid vacation.

• A high-growth company, providing opportunities for continued professional development and growth

• You'll get far more responsibility than at a big company, while at the same time far less stress than you will find in a 2-person garage startup.

• Build features that reach millions of users and drive some of the most visible experiences on redfin.com

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

Base Pay Range: $125,800.00 - 170,100.00. 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]

Redfin encourages individuals with criminal record histories to apply for employment and considers such individuals for employment consistent with the requirements of any applicable fair chance acts, including but not limited to the California, San Francisco and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Acts. Philadelphia applicants can access a copy of Philadelphia Fair Criminal Records Screening Standards ordinance poster here.

Redfin accepts applications on an ongoing basis.