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.
A Software Engineer at Realtor.com® is an autonomous contributor in the team. You solve problems with the help of your teammates, applying technologies with engineering best practices. You work with your team to design and build software that solves consumer and customer problems. You write stable code that a software engineer unfamiliar with the system can understand. You learn to make appropriate trade-offs and re-use where possible. You engage with customers, stakeholders, and peers to deliver exciting features for our customers. You help the team by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, and team planning.
Reasons to apply:
- Your code will ship on day one with real mentorship - You won't be working on throwaway features. Your work will ship to products used by real estate agents and consumers across the country, with Staff and Senior Engineers who care about clean code and helping you grow.
- You’ll build real systems, not just features - From APIs and backend services to dashboards and lead delivery systems, you’ll work on modern, scalable technology that solves real business problems.
What will you do?
- Participate in system architecture and design reviews
- Develop solutions that are of high quality, scalable, and reliable
- Work collaboratively in squads composed of Product Managers, Designers, Analysts, and Engineers.
- Investigate and prototype technologies that can be leveraged to introduce innovations
- Be self-directed, take initiative, and drive towards solutions with guidance
We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs proficiently to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios. Beyond simple usage, this role requires the critical judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security, performance, and accuracy. You should be comfortable integrating AI tooling into your daily workflow to eliminate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on high-impact architectural and strategic engineering challenges.
What will you bring?
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 2+ years experience in software development
- Experience in developing scalable systems
- Experience in software development and a strong willingness to learn the [|http://realtor.com/][+realtor.com+|http://realtor.com] technology stack, including Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, NumPy, Pandas), React, Node.js, and GraphQL
- Experience working with relational or non-relational databases.
- Experience with AI, Machine Learning, and AWS knowledge preferred
- Experience delivering high value to customers quickly, and frequently, with regular feedback and Support
- Experience evaluating trade-offs between design approaches
- Software engineering best practices (e.g., testing, code reviews, documentation).
How We Work:
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three 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®
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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 2+ years experience in software development
- Experience developing scalable, reliable systems
- Experience with Python and related frameworks/libraries (FastAPI, Pydantic, NumPy, Pandas)
- Experience with React
- Experience with Node.js
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience with relational or non-relational databases (SQL or NoSQL)
- Proficient use of AI coding assistants and LLMs with judgment to verify outputs
- Experience delivering high-value customer features quickly with feedback and support
- Software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, documentation)
- Experience with AI, Machine Learning, and AWS
What the Team is Saying
Realtor.com Compensation & Benefits Highlights
-
Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers is complemented by backup child and adult care, lactation support, and adoption assistance. Family-building resources and a dependent care FSA broaden support across life stages.
-
Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Health plans span reproductive care, fertility and family‑building, gender‑affirming coverage, autism programs, telemedicine, and mental‑health resources for adults and children. This breadth signals inclusive coverage for diverse needs.
-
Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is offered with Traditional and Roth options, alongside life/AD&D and disability protections. These elements provide structured long‑term financial support.
Realtor.com Insights
What We Do
We pioneered the world of digital real estate more than 25 years ago. Today, through our website and mobile apps, we are a trusted guide for consumers, empowering more people to find their way home by breaking down barriers, helping them make the right connections, and creating confidence through expert insights and guidance. For professionals, we are a trusted partner for business growth, offering consumer connections and branding solutions that help them succeed in today's on-demand world.
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.
Gallery
Realtor.com Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
