Remote Principal Backend Engineer — Lead & Mentor

Zillow Group Inc.; Ciudad de México; Remote; MXN 1,100,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Job summary

Zillow Group Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer for its Mexico team to lead end-to-end delivery of complex projects while mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction.

You will design features, review peers' code, promote standard methodologies, and drive discussions with a highly collaborative, multi-functional team focused on scalable backend services and APIs. English and Spanish fluency is valued.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience with Java, Python, NodeJS, and Go.
• Experience designing APIs and services and working with databases.
• Bilingual English and Spanish proficiency desired for collaboration and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design of new features.
• Review the code of peers.
• Advocate for standard methodologies.
• Facilitate engineering discussions.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Participate in a multi-functional team.

Skills

Java

Python

NodeJS

Go

APIs design

Relational databases

Non-relational databases

English

Spanish

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Zillow Group Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer for its Mexico team to lead end-to-end delivery of complex projects while mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction.

You will design features, review peers' code, promote standard methodologies, and drive discussions with a highly collaborative, multi-functional team focused on scalable backend services and APIs. English and Spanish fluency is valued.