Remote AI-Native Product Engineer - Shape Real Estate Tech

Zillow Group; United States; Remote; USD 153,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Zillow’s Metro team is hiring engineers to build the systems behind how customers find help, schedule tours, and connect with agents. You will turn loosely defined ideas into clear plans, shipping reliable products with measurable success and strong customer impact.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, data partners, and other engineers to shape solutions across UX, APIs, and data while upholding high standards in testing and deployment.”

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and shipping software in product environments where engineers own work beyond implementation.
• Own features or product areas from concept through launch and post-launch iteration.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including system design, testing strategy, debugging, maintainability, and operational readiness.
• Strong product and business judgment, including the ability to connect technical decisions to customer impact and company goals.
• Enough full-stack range to move across user experience, services, APIs, and data concerns when the problem requires it.
• Experience collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and data partners on customer-facing or workflow-heavy products.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools or automation as part of day-to-day engineering work.
• Clear written and verbal communication in English, including the ability to write specs, explain tradeoffs, and drive decisions asynchronously.
• Evidence of leadership through ownership, influence, and decision-making, not only through formal title.

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable, and reliable products.
• Take loosely defined ideas and turn them into clear plans with tradeoffs and success metrics.
• Work with product managers, designers, data partners, and engineers to shape solutions and improve customer experience.
• Build systems that real estate professionals and internal teams rely on to manage experiences and test ideas.
• Ship across the stack including UX, services, APIs, data models, instrumentation, and operations.
• Release with appropriate testing, rollout plans, monitoring, and safeguards against risk.
• Follow work into production, learn from customer behavior and metrics, and iterate over time.
• Raise the bar through code reviews, mentoring, and coding standards.

Skills

Software ownership

End-to-end delivery

System design

Testing strategy

Collaboration

AI tooling

Job description

Zillow’s Metro team is hiring engineers to build the systems behind how customers find help, schedule tours, and connect with agents. You will turn loosely defined ideas into clear plans, shipping reliable products with measurable success and strong customer impact.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, data partners, and other engineers to shape solutions across UX, APIs, and data while upholding high standards in testing and deployment.”