Principal Web Platform Architect (Remote)

zillow; United States; Remote; USD 186,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role for US-based employees

Job summary

Zillow is seeking a senior engineer to own the technical direction of a web design system used across hundreds of codebases. You will shape its architecture, releases, performance, accessibility, and adoption, collaborating with design system peers and platform teams.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive AI-assisted interfaces and server-driven UI, ensure release safety, and advocate for high quality across diverse applications and stacks.

Qualifications

• Deep experience leading web software engineering and setting technical direction for shared front-end systems.
• Ability to make evidence-based architecture decisions and communicate trade-offs to senior technical and product stakeholders.
• Experience supporting adoption and upgrades across teams with different tech stacks and architectures.
• Strong understanding of web performance, release quality, and accessibility, including troubleshooting complex applications.
• Technical leadership and mentoring skills to align engineering, design, and platform partners.

Responsibilities

• Define the system’s technical vision, including component architecture, styling, framework upgrades, and major releases.
• Make and explain architecture decisions that help teams build consistent web experiences across varied application structures.
• Partner with platform teams and senior engineering leaders to coordinate technical changes and guide adoption.
• Own performance across complex pages, diagnose issues spanning multiple sub-applications, and coordinate fixes.
• Uphold release safety, code quality, and accessibility standards for published packages, contributing code where useful.
• Mentor senior engineers and help shape support for coding agents, AI-generated interfaces, and server-driven UI.

Skills

Web architecture leadership

Performance optimization

Accessibility standards

Mentoring senior engineers

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Zillow is seeking a senior engineer to own the technical direction of a web design system used across hundreds of codebases. You will shape its architecture, releases, performance, accessibility, and adoption, collaborating with design system peers and platform teams.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive AI-assisted interfaces and server-driven UI, ensure release safety, and advocate for high quality across diverse applications and stacks.