The Zillow Home Loans (ZHL) engineering team as a whole plays a crucial role in achieving our ambitious goals and delivering an exceptional customer experience. We are connectors, leaders, and dedicated collaborators, working together to streamline the real estate transaction process and create a delightful and trustworthy journey for our customers. We work on every part of the stack, and collaborate with stakeholders across Zillow to make mortgages a transparent and seamless piece of the housing super app.
The ZHL GNOME team is responsible for building and maintaining core databases, APIs, and infrastructure that power the ZHL Task Platform. This platform is the underlying technology that enables task-based workflows at every step of the mortgage lifecycle, simplifying and accelerating the development of operator and borrower experiences. Central to our platform is the OODA loop - Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. As data changes on the loan, we run client-maintained rules that can create the next action to be done.About the role
As a Software Development Engineer, you’ll lead the delivery and ongoing support of projects from end-to-end. In addition, you will:
Contribute to the design of new features.
Review the code of your peers.
Advocate for standard methodologies.
Facilitate engineering discussions.
Mentor junior engineers.
Participate in an inclusive, energetic and highly multi-functional team.
This role has been categorized as a teleworker position. Teleworkers 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. Employees may live anywhere in the USA, with availability to travel within the country, as we recommend attendance at occasional office events.
In addition to a competitive base salary and benefits, this position is also eligible for bonuses depending on factors such as experience, performance and location.
Wondering if we're the right team for you? You'll excel in this team if you thrive on autonomy, seek out persistent problems, implement effective solutions quickly, and you are:
Bringing 3+ years of software development experience with ES6, React, Typescript, and GraphQL to power our web and mobile web applications and Python, NodeJS, and Go for APIs and services.
Experienced in a range of persistence strategies including relational and non-relational databases.
Highly skilled with multiple modern development technologies used to design, deliver, debug, and maintain front-end user interfaces and back-end software systems.
Recognized as a technical leader on your team for several years and have an impact beyond your team.
Passionate about setting standard methodologies and raising the bar for systems design, testing, code quality, and maintainability - not only for the team but for the entire engineering organization!
3+ years of experience with Typescript, Go, or other strongly typed languages
Experience scaling relational databases, such as Aurora Postgres
Experience building internal platforms at scale
Experience in API design (GraphQL or REST)
Experience building distributed systems and microservices
Experience in Mortgage or Regulated Fintech
At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help customers navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company that's reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.
Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.
No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.
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, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of software development experience with ES6, React, Typescript, and GraphQL
- Experience with Python, NodeJS, and Go
- Experience in scaling relational databases like Aurora Postgres
- Experience in API design (GraphQL or REST)
Zillow Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zillow and has not been reviewed or approved by Zillow.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, and robust mental-health resources with coaching and app-based support. Wellness reimbursements and wellbeing tools reinforce a strong emphasis on overall health.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental benefits are noted as fully paid and expansive, including bonding leave, ramp-back options, and a new-baby stipend. Additional family-forming support such as fertility coverage, adoption/surrogacy assistance, breast milk shipping, and backup childcare deepens this strength.
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Flexible Benefits — A distributed-first work model offers broad location flexibility, with home-office support and short-term international work options. This flexibility pairs with generous PTO, holidays, sick leave, and a sabbatical program as key parts of the total package.
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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.
