Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, API & Systems Leadership

Zillow Group; United States; Remote; USD 50,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Job summary

Zillow Group is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead delivery and ongoing support of projects from end-to-end, contribute to feature design, and review code. You will mentor junior engineers and participate in an inclusive, multi-functional team as a teleworker based in Mexico.

The role emphasizes autonomy, problem solving, and collaboration across backend and frontend systems, with equity awards and a competitive base salary in addition to benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience with Java, Python, NodeJS, and Go for APIs and services.
• Fluent in English and Spanish (both written and spoken).
• Authorized to work in Mexico.
• Experience with designing, delivering, debugging, and maintaining front-end and back-end systems.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design of new features and review peers’ code.
• Advocate for standard development methodologies and facilitate engineering discussions.
• Mentor junior engineers and participate in a multi-functional team.

Skills

Java

Python

NodeJS

Go

Tools

Relational databases

Non-relational databases

Job description

Zillow Group is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead delivery and ongoing support of projects from end-to-end, contribute to feature design, and review code. You will mentor junior engineers and participate in an inclusive, multi-functional team as a teleworker based in Mexico.

The role emphasizes autonomy, problem solving, and collaboration across backend and frontend systems, with equity awards and a competitive base salary in addition to benefits.