Senior Software Engineer, Avail

News Corp

Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 170,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Volunteer Time Off

Office snacks

Job summary

Realtor.com seeks a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our high-performance engineering team in Austin. You will own features across backend, APIs, frontend, and DevOps, contributing from day one with a deep, cross-functional impact.

You will work on hyper-customized web experiences, high-traffic frontend optimization, and scalable backend services while modernizing infrastructure and expanding automated tests.

Qualifications

5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems.
Experience with Node.js and microservice architectures.
Strong knowledge of RESTful and GraphQL APIs and modern frontend frameworks.
Cloud/DevOps experience with AWS and containerization.
Familiarity with event-driven data pipelines and data streaming.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-traffic features across backend, APIs, frontend, and infrastructure.
Own test automation standards and deliver production-ready code.
Ensure operational quality with observability, SLOs, monitoring, and incident response.
Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve workflows and productivity.
Collaborate cross-functionally to drive delivery in an agile environment.

Skills

5+ years of software engineering

Full-stack development

RESTful/GraphQL APIs

React or frontend framework

Cloud/DevOps

AI-assisted tooling awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Snowflake

Aurora

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQS/SNS

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Avail

Location: Austin, TX, United States

Category: Technology

Job ID: 3245

Description

About The Role:

We are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our high-performance engineering organization as a full-time, hands-on individual contributor. In this role, you will be embedded within a cross-functional team owning critical segments of our consumer ecosystem.

Our engineering organization is structured so that each domain team owns its vertical stack end-to-end—from backend microservices and APIs through frontend and DevOps. We are looking for an engineer with genuine depth across all layers of the stack who can move seamlessly between backend logic and rich frontend experiences, contributing independently within their first few weeks.

Beyond technical skills, we want someone who is innovative, proactive, and self-driven—an engineer who actively seeks out better tools, raises quality standards, and delivers without waiting for direction. We place a premium on self-learners who challenge the status quo, take genuine pride in the reliability of what they ship, and comfortably navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

Potential Teams you will get to work on:

New Constructions
The Focus: Powering the leading builder listing platform in the US, empowering a diverse range of consumers to discover and customize their dream homes.
What You’ll Work On: Building hyper-customized web experiences for vibrant new communities, optimizing high-velocity frontends for substantial traffic and search engine optimization (SEO), enhancing backend services, modernizing infrastructure, expanding automated test suites, and engineering automated developer toolchains for instantaneous cloud service provisioning.
Mortgage & Financial Services
The Focus: Building the digital future of home financing by creating seamless, secure, and transparent financial tools for buyers and lenders.
What You’ll Work On: High-traffic loan origination flows, real-time rate and affordability calculators, secure lead capture systems, compliance-aware data architecture, and deep integrations with third-party lender partner APIs.
Rentals Post-Lead & B2B Partnerships
The Focus: Powering what happens after the lead - building the products and backend services that turn renter interest into completed applications and drive rental revenue for property managers and independent landlords.
What You’ll Work On: Partner-facing portals and promoted-listing products, external partner integrations (application and listing providers), GraphQL services and backend infrastructure at scale, revenue-diversification features, and the data pipelines behind partner performance and reporting.

Product Delivery: Design, build, and maintain high-traffic features and partner integrations across the full vertical stack (backend, APIs, frontend, infrastructure, databases).
Engineering Excellence: Write well-tested, production-ready code. Own and enforce test automation standards (unit, integration, E2E) in line with an engineering-owned quality model.
Operational Ownership: Take full accountability for the operational quality, observability, and reliability of your services—including setting SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response readiness.
Data & Security: Ensure data integrity, secure engineering practices, and compliance-aware design when handling sensitive consumer, financial, and high-volume marketplace data.
Modern Workflow Innovation: Leverage and champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Windsurf, Portkey, Gemini) to optimize development workflows.
Leadership & Collaboration: Drive project delivery with strong personal ownership—managing scope, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies. Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders to build trust quickly.
What You’ll Bring: Experience: Bring 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems and high-traffic, consumer-facing products.
True Full-Stack Capability: Demonstrate proven depth across backend services, RESTful/GraphQL APIs, modern frontend frameworks (React or equivalent), and cloud/DevOps.
Backend Expertise: Utilize your strong experience with Node.js and microservice architectures.
Domain Background: Leverage your experience building search, marketplace, listing-based, or financial services products (e.g., loan application flows, rate calculators, lender/partner API integrations).
Operational Rigor: Take direct ownership of production infrastructure, including observability, SLOs, and incident management.
Execution: Apply strong project management skills to independently drive features from scoping through delivery in an agile, matrixed environment.
Education: Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
AI Tools: Hands-on experience integrating AI-assisted development tools into your daily workflow.
Data Architecture: Familiarity with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS) and data pipelines (e.g., Snowflake, S3, Aurora, reverse ETL).
Cloud & DevOps: Experience deploying and operating services on AWS using Kubernetes and containerization.
Advanced API Design: Familiarity with federated GraphQL architecture.
Compliance Awareness: Understanding of financial data sensitivity and compliance considerations relevant to consumer financial products (e.g., RESPA, TILA awareness).
Culture: Comfort working in a data- and metrics-driven engineering culture aligned with performance KPIs.

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work four or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

How We Reward You:

Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to: