Software Engineer, Sr

News Corp; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Family forming benefits

Paid holidays

Flexible Time Off

401(k) company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Financial Planning Sessions

Student Debt Retirement Savings Match

Office snacks & refreshments

Job summary

Realtor.com in Austin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the RDC Plus team. You will help define architecture for consumer and agent experiences, drive complex features from ideation to release, and deliver scalable backend APIs and frontend solutions.

The role emphasizes a data-driven, collaborative approach with mentorship of junior engineers and a focus on modern architectures and AI-enabled development practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software architecture, design and development with backend/API focus.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud-based architectures.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Python/Typescript/Go/Java/Rust).
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Define work and drive technical decisions for complex features.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver scalable consumer/agent experiences.
• Lead product development from ideation to release with rapid prototyping.
• Architect, implement and evolve back-end APIs and frontend components.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote design patterns and quality.

Skills

Backend APIs

Full stack development

Distributed systems

Cloud AWS

Agentic AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Postgres

DynamoDB

MongoDB

AWS

Job description

Software Engineer, Sr

Location: Austin, TX, United States

Category: Technology

Job ID: 3325

Description

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

Who We Are

At Realtor.com, we are building products that empower millions of home buyers, renters, and real estate professionals. Our mission is to simplify the home buying/selling process and help more people achieve the dream of home ownership. We are looking for a collaborative and customer-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our RDC Plus team. This team creates innovative solutions across the real‑estate ecosystem, fostering deeper connections between industry players and consumers.

What You’ll Do:

• Use technology to create innovation that delights consumers, and agents, and disrupts the industry
• Define work and drive technical decisions for complex features in the consumer and agent facing experiences
• Collaborate across functional teams to solve business problems, and lead each step of the product development process: from ideation to release; rapidly prototyping, experimenting and delivering solutions that scale to support millions of users
• Connect business and consumer problems to proposed technical solutions. Work with product and other stakeholders to rapidly deliver high‑impact value and measure using data
• Define and evolve the architecture, design and implementation of consumer and agent facing experiences using clean architecture principles.
• Make effective and timely technology choices for implementing solutions, often without complete information.
• Drive a stable and scalable architecture using modern patterns to deliver a first‑class mobile product.
• Drive adoption of design patterns, coding and quality standards, and software development processes
• Help improve code generation and quality by utilizing agentic AI and best practices
• Mentor and coach junior engineers

What You’ll Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in software architecture, design and development, with specialty in developing backend APIs or full stack applications
• Experience with some modern distributed systems backend languages like Python or Typescript, or any other object oriented language (Go, Rust, Java, etc.)
• Good knowledge of distributed systems architecture from one of more cloud providers, preferable AWS, utilizing infrastructure as code
• Experience with both relational databases (Postgres, etc.) and document stores (DynamoDB, mongodb)
• Experience with frontend web or app application development
• Experience building maintainable and scalable systems
• Experience with agentic AI code generation a plus
• A data‑driven approach with strong results and outcome‑oriented focus, understanding the value derived from rapidly shipping code and learning/iterating on the results
• Strong empathy for our consumers and agents, and a passion for exceeding their expectations
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, connecting directly and effectively with cross‑functional technical and non‑technical stakeholders at various levels
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and communicate solutions succinctly
• A passion for learning, continuous improvement, sharing, and working in a team environment

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

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

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:

• 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.