Senior Backend Architect & Tech Lead (Remote)

Zillow Group; United States; Remote; USD 191,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Zillow Group's Post-Connect Engineering org builds the backend that powers home tours, scheduling, and data pipelines in a cloud-native AWS environment. You will be the primary technical steward of the backend across multiple languages and integrations, shaping architecture with independence and judgment.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product, data science and ML leaders, translate business goals into technical roadmaps, and drive reliability, performance, and delivery speed across

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Define and drive long-term backend strategy and architecture for cloud-native services.
• Lead design of high-throughput, low-latency APIs and data pipelines.
• Resolve complex technical problems with prototyping and data-driven tradeoffs.
• Partner with product, data, and ML leaders to translate goals into roadmaps.
• Mentor senior engineers and elevate reliability, performance, and incident response.
• Influence governance to protect data at scale.

Job description

Zillow Group's Post-Connect Engineering org builds the backend that powers home tours, scheduling, and data pipelines in a cloud-native AWS environment. You will be the primary technical steward of the backend across multiple languages and integrations, shaping architecture with independence and judgment.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product, data science and ML leaders, translate business goals into technical roadmaps, and drive reliability, performance, and delivery speed across