Senior Software Engineer
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At Realtor.com®, we have among the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all the online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone.
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Senior Software Engineer at Realtor.com (View all jobs)
Location: Austin, TX
We're seeking an innovative Senior Software Engineer to create solutions that result in faster data insights. Are you passionate about optimization and inventing new ways to work with massive data sets? Are you a team player and an advocate for software engineering best practices? Then read on!
You will be challenged to help teams move faster with tracking and consuming our mobile app and web clickstream data. The goals and problems to solve will be clear, and derived directly from teams of cross-functional stakeholders.
We believe in shared data ownership. Your solutions will result in empowering data owners to optimally unveil their data's value through data quality and democratization improvements. You will also develop systems and tooling to help data owners' quickly detect data anomalies and regression issues, to name a few.
Although your initial challenge encompasses clickstream data tracking, your future work will expand to help optimize data value across the entire organization.
What you’ll do:
- Create and implement data centric solutions considering current, future, and historical data sets
- Develop instrumentation and tooling to automate data auditing across disparate data domains
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams creating tools and training to help improve data quality
- Take full ownership of business problems from idea to solution through deployment
- Proactively seek and invent new technologies to help catalog and map data
- Prioritize user needs over technical feasibility and get excited for the challenge
What we’re looking for:
- An experienced software engineer with broad expertise in designing and building solutions that encompass large data sets
- Superior problem-solving skills while completing tasks with minimal supervision
- Test driven approach to your software development process
- Passion in delivering MVP without sacrificing quality
- A technical leader with a strong sense of ownership
- You believe that communication and accountability are key to being a great teammate
- Expert knowledge of SQL, data structures, data integrity, and schema design best practices
- Deep experience with Typescript or JavaScript and one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, Ruby, C#, Objective-C, or comparable Object Oriented language
- Familiar with data collecting, streaming, and processing technologies
- Experience working with AWS or equivalent cloud computing platform
- 5+ years experience or related work experience preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field, Master's degree a plus
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 software engineer with mastery in designing and building solutions that encompass large data sets
- Superior problem-solving skills while owning and completing tasks from ideation to delivery
- Test driven approach to your software development process
- Passion in delivering MVP without sacrificing quality
- A technical leader with a strong sense of ownership
- You believe that communication and accountability are key to being a great teammate
- Expert knowledge of SQL, data structures, data integrity, and schema design best practices
- Deep experience with Typescript or JavaScript and one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, Ruby, C#, Objective-C, or comparable Object Oriented language
- Familiar with data collecting, streaming, and processing technologies
- Experience working with AWS or equivalent cloud computing platform
- 8+ years experience or related work experience preferred
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field, Master's degree a plus
At Realtor, we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates
Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Accordingly, offers extended for this role will include an annual bonus target typically expressed as percentage of salary. Similarly to salary, annual incentive bonus targets are set based on a variety of factors including job level, competitive market practice, experience, tenure, and essential skills.
In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com
Building your career? Build it better 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.
