Remote Principal Frontend Architect for Scalable Web Apps

Zillow Group; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Job summary

Zillow Group is seeking a Principal, Software Engineering, Front End to lead the design and delivery of performant, accessible interfaces across consumer and partner experiences. You will set front-end architecture, drive cross-team strategy, and mentor engineers to build scalable UI systems powering Zillow’s real estate marketplace.

The role emphasizes shaping roadmaps with product and data teams, raising the engineering bar with quality standards, and influencing organization-wide engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production web applications with modern JavaScript/TypeScript front-end frameworks.
• Experience leading end-to-end technical design and delivery of complex front-end initiatives across multiple teams.
• Proven track record influencing architecture, standards, and technical direction for large-scale web experiences.
• Experience mentoring and developing other engineers in a distributed environment.
• Experience in cloud-based environments and collaborating with back-end, data, and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve front-end architecture, patterns, and best practices for secure, performant web experiences at scale.
• Lead design and implementation of complex, consumer-facing features and UI systems from concept through launch.
• Partner with product, design, back-end, and data teams to shape roadmaps and align investments across squads.
• Raise engineering bar by reviewing code and designs, setting quality standards, and guiding trade-offs in a distributed environment.
• Coach and mentor senior and staff engineers, building technical leadership across teams.
• Evaluate modern front-end technologies to improve productivity, performance, and user experience.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Front-end architecture

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Zillow Group is seeking a Principal, Software Engineering, Front End to lead the design and delivery of performant, accessible interfaces across consumer and partner experiences. You will set front-end architecture, drive cross-team strategy, and mentor engineers to build scalable UI systems powering Zillow’s real estate marketplace.

The role emphasizes shaping roadmaps with product and data teams, raising the engineering bar with quality standards, and influencing organization-wide engineering