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 Staff Backend Software Engineer to join our RDC Next team. This team creates innovative solutions across the real-estate ecosystem, fostering deeper connections between industry players and consumers.

What You'll Do:

As a Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for our backend ecosystem, architecting the core pillars of our platform.

• Product Partnership: Work directly with Product Managers to deeply understand product requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and ensure the implementation aligns with both user needs and technical feasibility.
• Architect Core Systems: Lead the design, implementation, and testing of high-scale content ingestion pipelines and user-facing APIs that power the consumer and agent experience.
• Advance AI Innovation: Shape our AI platform strategy, integrating machine learning models and agentic AI into production workflows to transform the industry.
• Expand the Ecosystem: Design reliable architectures for 3rd party integrations, ensuring seamless data exchange with external real-estate services and partners.
• Ensure High-Reliability Communication: Build and scale a notification system capable of delivering real-time, meaningful updates to millions of users.
• Operational Excellence: Set the standards for infrastructure, observability, and monitoring, ensuring our distributed systems are resilient, transparent, and scalable.
• Collaborative Leadership: Guide technical decisions for complex features, lead rapid prototyping, and evolve the architecture using Clean Architecture principles.
• Mentor & Support: Act as a mentor to junior engineers, encouraging a culture of continuous learning and high-quality software development.

What You'll Bring:

• 8+ years experience in software architecture and backend systems development.
• Backend Expertise: Proficiency in modern distributed languages such as Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Java.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Experience with AWS (or similar) and a commitment to operational health.
• Data Modeling: Expertise in relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL stores (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• System Design: A track record of building scalable APIs, event-driven architectures, and integrations.
• Observability Mindset: A focus on maintaining system health through monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• AI Interest: Curiosity or experience in building AI platforms and agentic workflows.
• Communication: Ability to break down complex problems and share solutions clearly with both technical and non-technical partners.
• Data-Driven: A data-informed approach balanced with strong empathy for the people using our products.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a 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 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.

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