Remote Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable APIs & Cloud

Zillow Group

México

Remote

MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Zillow Group is seeking a Senior Specialist, Software Engineering, Back End to design, build, and operate scalable backend services powering Zillow’s experiences. You will lead server-side development, improve performance and resiliency, and collaborate with product, data, and infra teams to support millions of users and enable developer productivity across brands.

You will architect and maintain secure services in containerized/cloud environments, mentor engineers, and drive best practices like

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
8+ years of experience in software engineering with backend/server-side focus.
Experience designing and operating RESTful or gRPC services in production.
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and containerization/orchestration.
Experience with relational and non-relational data stores and messaging/streaming tech.
Cross-functional, agile team collaboration, including planning and release practices.
Equivalent education/experience accepted.

Responsibilities

Architect, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
Lead design for high-performance, observable distributed systems in containerized/cloud environments.
Collaborate with product, data, and ML teams to translate requirements into robust designs.
Implement engineering best practices: testing, code reviews, CI/CD, instrumentation, runbooks.
Troubleshoot production issues and drive systemic improvements.
Mentor engineers through code/design reviews and knowledge sharing.