Principal Software Development Engineer, IOS Mobile

About the teamAre you passionate about building new, immersive experiences to change how people shop for homes and rentals? The iOS Customer Media Experience team is re-imagining the home tour experience, giving people the feeling of being there from the convenience of their phones or computers. Using groundbreaking technologies, the CMX team works across product, research, engineering, and business to enable people to walk through a home and interact with our AI chat. We believe this technology will be the future of home shopping for Zillow's 180 million users!

About the role

The Customer Media Experience mobile team is an Android and iOS team who builds innovative solutions for the best shopping experiences for our home shoppers and real estate agents. We are looking for an iOS principal engineer with a strong technical background to help build premium features. As a principal developer, you will help define architectural direction, craft amazing user experiences, and drive features forward across multiple teams. Our ideal candidate is a great teammate, who is passionate about technology, and is excited to deliver value to customers. You'll contribute to a high-impact project that reaches millions of users, shaping their experience in exploring and evaluating homes.

You will get to:

• Collaborate across the stack to help define and architect efficient and reliable features in the Zillow Mobile apps

• Work with Product Managers, and UX designers for product feature prioritization, estimation, and planning.

• Review with peers in the team and cross-team to deliver best-in-class code quality.

• Own mobile features that deliver critical values to Zillow's partners.

• Identify, scope, and lead complex, strategic projects with wide impact across the company.

• Design the systems necessary to expand our suite of products while balancing speed-to-market and scalability for customer-facing features.

• Work multi-functionally to align technical initiatives and decisions, including product, design, and other engineering teams.

• Drive the continued development of a long-term technical strategy for iOS.

• Apply technical expertise to decision making and architecture, demonstrating an analytical approach to identifying constraints and developing effective solutions.

• Tackle hard engineering and user experience problems, solving them in an elegant and seamless manner.

• Identify gaps in our systems, design solutions, and help steer the execution of the solution.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $186,700.00 - $298,300.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Who you are

• Minimum educational requirement is a BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science/EE/STEM, along with 7+ years of relevant experience. 

• Strong OO programming experience: Swift, Objective-C.

• Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture.

• Experience in setting technical direction, planning, and successfully completing large projects that involve multiple teams. 

• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across teams and organizations.

• Ability to lead and work closely with other engineers and individuals in BE roles, product, and design, across various fields and subject areas.

• Ability to break down complex projects into components or achievements that can easily be picked up by other engineers.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.

• Experience with Agile development processes.

• Experience working on apps released on the app store

• Experience with unit testing/automated tests.

• The ability to work in a fast, agile, and flexible environment with frequent change.

• Ability to mentor and coach Jr developers.

Get to know us

Zillow is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.

As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help make it easier to move. The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.

Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages as well as parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. We’re also setting the standard for work experiences of the future, where our employees are supported in doing their best work and living a flexible, well-balanced life. But don’t just take our word for it. Read recent reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index, and TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.

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