Senior Backend Architect - Remote Mortgage Platform

Zillow Group; United States; Remote; USD 156,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

Zillow Group is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer for the Mortgage engineering team. The role focuses on architecting, designing, and implementing scalable backend services aligned with business needs. You will lead end-to-end development, optimize performance, reliability, security, and operability, and mentor engineers while promoting modern engineering practices such as automation and CI/CD.

This remote position serves the U.S. market with compensation that varies by state.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production-grade solutions.
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to team-level technical decisions and standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development efforts, including design, coding, code reviews, testing, deployment, and monitoring for complex features.
• Improve application performance, reliability, security, and operability through thoughtful design and observability.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and partner teams to translate requirements into technical solutions and drive alignment.
• Mentor and coach engineers by sharing best practices in software design, coding standards, and operational excellence.
• Champion modern engineering practices (automation, CI/CD, testability) and contribute to technical standards that improve quality.

Skills

End-to-end dev

Solution design

Code reviews

Testing

Deployment

Monitoring

Observability

Collaboration

Mentoring

CI/CD

Automation

Operational excellence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE

Job description

Zillow Group is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer for the Mortgage engineering team. The role focuses on architecting, designing, and implementing scalable backend services aligned with business needs. You will lead end-to-end development, optimize performance, reliability, security, and operability, and mentor engineers while promoting modern engineering practices such as automation and CI/CD.

This remote position serves the U.S. market with compensation that varies by state.