Senior AI-Native Product Engineer, Full Stack

ZINC Zillow, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 160,900 - 257,100; Full time

Job summary

Zillow Group Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to build systems that enhance customer connections with real estate agents. This remote position offers a base salary range of $160,900.00–$257,100.00 annually based on location.

Responsibilities include developing solutions from loosely defined ideas, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring successful product rollouts. Strong software development expertise and leadership evidence in engineering work are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and shipping software in product environments.
• Track record of owning features or product areas from concept through launch.
• Strong engineering fundamentals including system design and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

• Take loosely defined ideas and turn them into clear plans for production.
• Work closely with product managers and engineers to shape solutions.
• Ship with a solid testing strategy and monitoring.

Skills

Software development

System design

Debugging

Collaboration

Communication

Job description

About the Team

The Metro team builds systems that shape how customers connect with real estate agents on Zillow. We develop tools for real estate professionals and internal product teams to manage experiences, test ideas, and support customers throughout the home buying and selling journey.

About the Role

This is not a standard Senior Software Development Engineer role. You will build the systems behind how Zillow customers find help, schedule tours, and connect with agents. We seek engineers who turn ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable, reliable products.

Responsibilities

You will take loosely defined ideas and turn them into clear plans with tradeoffs, edge cases, success metrics, and a path to production.

Work closely with product managers, designers, data partners, and other engineers to shape solutions, challenge assumptions, and improve the customer experience.

Build systems that real estate professionals and internal product teams rely on to manage experiences, test ideas, and support customers throughout their journey.

Go where the problem lives: user experience, services, APIs, data models, instrumentation, and operational workflows.

Ship with a solid testing strategy, rollout plan, monitoring, and safeguards for risk.

Follow your work into production, learn from customer behavior and metrics, and continue improving over time.

Raise the bar through code reviews, technical discussions, mentoring, and setting standards in day‑to‑day work.

Qualifications

Significant experience building and shipping software in product environments where engineers own work beyond implementation.

Track record of owning features or product areas from concept through launch and post‑launch iteration.

Strong engineering fundamentals: system design, testing strategy, debugging, maintainability, operational readiness.

Strong product and business judgment, connecting technical decisions to customer impact and company goals.

Full‑stack range to move across user experience, services, APIs, and data concerns when required.

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 writing specs, explaining tradeoffs, and driving decisions asynchronously.

Leadership evidence through ownership, influence, and decision‑making, not only through formal title.

Compensation

Remote position. Base salary ranges by location (U.S.) as follows: $160,900.00–$257,100.00 annually in select states, $152,900.00–$244,300.00 annually in other states. Position also eligible for equity awards based on experience, performance, and location.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment. We provide accommodations for disabilities and consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records where allowed by law.