Software Eng-Mobile, Sr

News Corp; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Family benefits

Holidays

Flexible time off

Volunteer time off

401(k) match

Tuition reimbursement

Financial planning

Debt savings match

Snacks & beverages

Job summary

Realtor.com is seeking a Sr. Android engineer to design native mobile experiences, scale architectures, and drive quality and collaboration across product, design, and backend teams in Austin.

You will own testing strategies (BDD/TDD), mentor teammates, and contribute to AI-powered features such as personalization and recommendations, delivering high quality apps for millions of users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/related field or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer in the tech industry building products at scale.
• 3+ years of experience developing native mobile applications and working within a team environment.
• Owns Quality: BDD, TDD, Unit tests, Integration Tests is at the core of designing architecture and delivering with high quality.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills and design.
• Strong experience working with Kotlin, Dagger, Couroutines, Jetpack compose, MVVM.
• Experience leading teams, mentoring colleagues, and managing technical projects.
• A driven mobile software engineer that is motivated to build great products and a great codebase in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiar with mobile product and design life cycles, and collaborating closely with designers, product managers and backend engineers.
• Strong communication skills with a growth and learning mindset.
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Independent and can manage your own projects and time with ease, all the while setting and managing stakeholder expectations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in cross-functional team through ideation to release; prototype rapidly and deliver scalable solutions.
• Define and evolve architecture, design and implementation of consumer-facing experiences using clean architecture principles.
• Connect business and consumer problems to proposed technical solutions; deliver high quality, resilient products.
• Build a stable and scalable architecture using modern patterns for a first-class mobile product.
• Leverage AI/ML frameworks or integrate AI-powered solutions into mobile applications.
• Mentor and actively level up teammates.
• Build with testing best practices to enable rapid iterations.
• On-Call Rotation to ensure app reliability and respond to critical issues.

Skills

Kotlin

Dagger

Coroutines

Jetpack Compose

MVVM

OOP design

Team mentoring

Data-driven decisions

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

GraphQL

Room

Espresso

Appium

OkHttp/Retrofit

Maps SDK

Job description

Software Eng-Mobile, Sr

Location: Austin, TX, United States

Category: Technology

Job ID: 3306

Description

Sr. Mobile Software Engineer, Android

At Realtor.com®, we believe that everyone deserves a home of their own. We’re a community of nearly 2,000 employees that work hard to ensure that from the moment someone starts dreaming about a new home, to the moment they walk in the door and beyond, we’re there to lend a helping hand. Every month, 80 million people trust us with their journey home by visiting our site and mobile apps, and we’d love to have you join our team to help.

We’ve got great offices across Canada and the US and lots of sweet jobs to choose from, so we’re hoping you’ll join us on our journey to make home buying and selling easier, and more rewarding for everyone.

Let’s make a difference, together. For Real.

About the Role

Realtor.com is your one stop shop for homebuyers, renters, sellers, and dreamers, with comprehensive for-sale listings, insightful information, valuable tools and professional expertise. We’re excited and hungry to make a difference to the millions of people in the US who buy a home each year by delivering beautiful intuitive mobile app experiences.

We are looking for a Sr. Android engineer who would like to make a difference in the products they develop. If you are passionate about building native experiences, designing architectures that scale, writing code with quality in mind and you thrive by collaborating with cross functional teams, you’ll be right at home with us.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively in a cross functional team to contribute and lead each step of the product development process: from ideation to release; rapidly prototyping, experimenting and delivering solutions that can scale to support millions of users

• Define and evolve the architecture, design and implementation of consumer facing experiences using clean architecture principles

• Connects business and consumer problems to proposed technical solutions. Advocates for delivering high quality, resilient and fault tolerant products to consumers.

• Build a stable and scalable architecture using modern patterns to deliver a first-class mobile product

• Experience leveraging AI/ML frameworks or integrating AI-powered solutions (e.g., personalization, recommendations, natural language, or developer productivity tools) into mobile applications

• Mentors and actively seeks to level up their teammates

• Build with testing best practices to enable us to iterate quickly

• On-Call Rotation: Engineers will participate in an on-call rotation to ensure app reliability, responding to critical issues as needed.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/related field or equivalent professional experience

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer in the tech industry building products at scale

• 3+ years of experience developing native mobile applications and working within a team environment

• Owns Quality: BDD, TDD, Unit tests, Integration Tests is at the core of designing architecture and delivering with high quality

• Strong object-oriented programming skills and design

• Strong experience working with Kotlin, Dagger, Couroutines, Jetpack compose, MVVM

• Experience leading teams, mentoring colleagues, and managing technical projects

• A driven mobile software engineer that is motivated to build great products and a great codebase in a fast-paced environment

• Familiar with mobile product and design life cycles, and collaborating closely with designers, product managers and backend engineers

• Strong communication skills with a growth and learning mindset

• Strong analytical thinking and ability to make data-driven decisions

• Independent and can manage your own projects and time with ease, all the while setting and managing stakeholder expectations

Nice to Have

• Interest in or experience with functional programming concepts

• Experience with Android SDK performance tools, and optimization

• Experience working with GraphQL, Room, Espresso, Appium, OkHttp/Retrofit, Maps SDK

How We Work

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. Our employees work four days in our Austin headquarters, 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 well-being of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage

• Family forming benefits

• 13 Paid Holidays

• Flexible Time Off

• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off

• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match

• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs

• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions

• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program

• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.