Associate Software Engineer

Realtor.com; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

13 Paid Holidays

401(k) with company match

Volunteer time off

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible time off

Snacks in office

Job summary

Realtor.com is seeking an Associate Software Engineer to join the Owners & Sellers team in Austin.

You will own mission-critical platforms, drive frontend/backend work with TypeScript/React/Next.js, and lead architectural discussions. The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, cloud infrastructure on AWS, and performance improvements to deliver reliable user experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience with frontend and backend in TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Proficiency with React.js, Node.js, and GraphQL.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain core parts of the Owners & Sellers platform.
• Lead architectural discussions and write design proposals.
• Improve performance and reliability, SLAs, and incident response.
• Leverage AI tooling to accelerate development while ensuring security.

Skills

Typescript

React

Node.js

Next.js

GraphQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

AI tooling

Systems design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Apollo GraphQL

CircleCI

ArgoCD

Job description

Description

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.

Who are we:

Have an interest in making an impact for millions of consumers? Do you thrive in a cross-collaborative environment? Are you ready to take on your next career challenge? If you want to pursue your professional goals as you help grow an innovative real estate tech company, this work is for you!

We’re offering a dynamic opportunity for an Associate Software Engineer to join our Owners & Sellers team. In this role, You will act as a foundational technical engineer running mission-critical platforms that directly drive revenue, while taking charge of initiatives that improve the consumer experience and drive core business outcomes. Leverage the latest technologies, including Typescript, React, Node.js, NextJS, GraphQL, AWS, AI tools, and more, to accelerate your professional growth and achieve new heights in your career.

Top Reasons to Apply:

• Hands-On Cloud & DevOps Ownership
  You’ll own the infrastructure, not just the code. You will design AWS data pipelines and automate the toolchain (using Lambda, ECS, and CloudFormation) to enable instant service provisioning and zero-friction deployments.
• AI-Driven Engineering Culture
  The team actively rewards engineers who leverage AI tools as a performance multiplier. You’ll be encouraged to use AI to write better code faster and accelerate development in a forward-thinking environment.

What you’ll do:

• Develop and Maintain: Own systems and evolutions for key parts of the Owners & Sellers platform, defining clear boundaries, contracts, and data models between services. Participate in and lead architectural discussions, contributing to technical design documents and implementation proposals.
• Full-Stack Excellence: Maintain and improve the stability, readability, and scalability of the codebase, ensuring best practices across backend services and frontend architecture using React and Next.js.
• Optimize Performance & Reliability: Drive performance improvements and optimize Core Web Vitals (such as INP metrics) across our pages. Lead operational excellence by ensuring services meet SLAs, influencing incident response, and continuously reducing incident volume and MTTR.
• Leverage Cutting-Edge Tooling: Utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs proficiently to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios, while exercising critical judgment to verify outputs for security and accuracy.

What You’ll Bring:

• Software development experience, including internships, academic projects, or relevant professional experience. including time in large-scale, distributed systems
• Full-stack proficiency: Experience in frontend web development with a strong focus on Typescript, React js and Apollo GraphQL combined with deep proficiency in backend languages like Node js and GraphQL.
• AI Tooling Mastery: Proven proficiency using modern AI-assisted SDLC environments and agents (e.g., Claude/Cursor/GitHub Copilot, - based engineering agents) and drive AI adoption at scale
• Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise: Experience designing and operating cloud-native services on AWS (EKS, containers like Docker, managed databases) with modern CI/CD orchestration (e.g., CircleCI, ArgoCD, Kubernetes).
• Systems Design: Strong grounding in system design, data modeling, API design, responsive design principles, and CSS technologies like PandaCSS/CSS3.
• Observability & Data-Driven Mindset: Comfort working with observability tooling (metrics, logs, traces like NewRelic and Splunk) and using data to debug, optimize, and harden production systems.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/related field or equivalent professional experience.

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. Our employees work three days in our Austin headquarters 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 include:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage.
• 13 Paid Holidays and Flexible Time Off.
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match.
• Family forming benefits and Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program.
• Tuition Reimbursement and 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions.
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off.
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location.

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, or disability status.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.