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.
At Realtor.com, we’re on a mission to revolutionize the way people find and secure their dream homes. Every day, we process terabytes of data to power intelligent search and personalized recommendations that serve millions of home buyers, renters, and real estate professionals. Our core search engine sits at the heart of this experience—helping users discover the right home faster, with greater confidence.
Are you ready to take a leading technical role, driving architecture and design decisions across multiple teams? As a Staff Software Engineer at realtor.com, you'll lead the development of critical backend services and search platforms, impacting millions of users. You will focus on building scalable, high-performance search functionalities, integrating machine learning models, and driving innovation within our engineering teams. Work with cutting-edge technologies like AWS, Elasticsearch, and Node.js to deliver exceptional experiences for our users.
Three Reasons Why to Apply:
- Help build our next-gen Personalization Platform with the cutting-edge technologies
- Contribute to improving search experiences for millions of users
- Gain hands-on experience with large-scale Recommendation system
What You'll Do:
- Serve as a technical lead for key projects, focusing on the architecture and development of scalable backend services and search functionalities.
- Develop AI-native services
- Design, build, and optimize high-performance search platforms using Elasticsearch, ensuring relevance, accuracy, and speed for millions of users.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement solutions that drive product innovation, scalability, and performance.
- Own the design and development of complex features, including data pipelines and the integration of advanced machine learning models into the search platform.
- Drive performance optimizations for search and backend services, ensuring low-latency and high availability.
- Mentor and coach engineers, guiding them on best practices, technical problem-solving, and search technologies.
- Contribute to the technical roadmap and long-term architecture vision, driving innovation and reducing technical debt.
- Play a critical role in hiring and developing engineering talent, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
How We Work:
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three 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.
What You'll Bring:
- A highly skilled software engineer with extensive experience in building scalable search platforms and backend services.
- Proven ability to lead teams in delivering complex features while ensuring high quality and scalability.
- Experience with LLM, RAG, and other Gen-AI experience a huge plus.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, capable of interacting effectively with product managers, stakeholders, and other engineers.
- 7+ years of software development experience, with specific expertise in search technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch, Solr) and scalable backend services.
- Experience with cloud-based architectures and services, particularly AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, etc.).
- Proficient in designing and implementing data pipelines, and integrating machine learning models into production search platforms.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent professional experience.
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. People are our foundation—the core that drives us passionately forward. 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.
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What We Do
We pioneered the world of digital real estate more than 25 years ago. Today, through our website and mobile apps, we are a trusted guide for consumers, empowering more people to find their way home by breaking down barriers, helping them make the right connections, and creating confidence through expert insights and guidance. For professionals, we are a trusted partner for business growth, offering consumer connections and branding solutions that help them succeed in today's on-demand world.
Why Work With Us
The way home begins with you. With a diverse team of experts alongside you, you’ll help us reach new heights at the forefront of the digital real estate space. Bring your extensive knowledge and deep expertise and collaborate with other passionate visionaries to lead our industry and revolutionize the way people find home, in every form.
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