About the team

Zillow Group is on a mission to revolutionize the real estate process and make it easier for buyers, sellers, and renters. Our goal is to provide a seamless experience from start to finish, helping you find, finance, and move into your dream home. We are taking an "Integrated Mortgage" approach, ensuring that every step of the journey is connected and hassle-free.

The Mortgage engineering team plays a crucial role in achieving our ambitious goals and delivering an exceptional customer experience. We are connectors, leaders, and dedicated collaborators, working together to streamline the real estate transaction process and create a delightful and trustworthy journey for our customers.

As part of the ZHL platform group, our team is responsible for developing and enabling ease of adoption of key Mortgage tech enablers of Tasks and workflows. These enablers power the mortgage domain's customer experience, operator tools, marketing, and analytics systems. We are backend developers who are transforming and designing innovative lending systems that will provide a unified experience for our various lines of business and bring joy to our customers.

About the role

- Architect, design, and implement scalable, maintainable software applications and services that align with business and user needs. - Lead end-to-end development efforts, including solution design, coding, code reviews, testing, deployment, and monitoring for complex features. - Optimize application performance, reliability, security, and operability through thoughtful design and observability. - Collaborate with product, engineering, and other partner teams to translate requirements into technical solutions and drive alignment. - Mentor and coach engineers by sharing best practices in software design, coding standards, and operational excellence. - Champion modern engineering practices (automation, CI/CD, testability) and contribute to technical standards that improve quality.

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, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $160,900.00 - $257,100.00 annually. This base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations. In Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia the standard base pay range for this role is $152,900.00 - $244,300.00 annually. The base pay range is specific to these locations 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. Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside.

Who you are

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer engineering, or a related technical field. - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting production applications or services. - Demonstrated experience delivering complex software solutions in a collaborative, cross-functional environment. - Experience mentoring other engineers and contributing to team-level technical decisions and standards. - Or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Get to know us

At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help people navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.

How we work is a key part of that transformation. Through Cloud HQ, our strategic approach to distributed work, most employees have the flexibility to work from wherever they’re most productive—enabling us to move fast, stay connected and deliver on our people promise. 

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the U.S. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2026, and included on TIME’s America’s Best Companies 2026 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.

No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.

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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.