Fullstack Senior Engineer

Fullstack Senior Engineer

Location: Austin, TX, United States

Category: Technology

Job ID: 3313

Description

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.

Who We Are

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 seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join the News & Insights team. The team builds the platform behind Realtor.com’s high-traffic news experience, serving millions of readers and distributing content to major publishing partners.

This is a backend-heavy full-stack role for an engineer who can own server-side systems while contributing to frontend features. You will work across APIs, data integrations, React and Next.js product surfaces, caching, and platform reliability while partnering with Product, editorial stakeholders, and other engineers. The role will also contribute to the AI-powered Hyperlocal content experience. Cloud delivery, CI/CD, and operational reliability are important parts of the work, but the role is not primarily a DevOps position.

What You’ll Do:

Full-Stack Product Development

• Build and expand consumer-facing features across the frontend and backend.
• Contribute to React and Next.js features, especially when work spans both sides of a product feature.
• Own full-stack work from technical design through testing, release, and production support.

Backend Systems & APIs

• Design, build, and scale backend services and APIs supporting the News & Insights platform.
• Develop and maintain Node.js and TypeScript services, GraphQL schemas, persisted queries, and RESTful APIs.
• Own server-side data flows and make sound decisions around service boundaries, performance, and maintainability.

Platform Performance & Reliability

• Improve caching and delivery strategies, including CDN or edge caching, object caching, and incremental rendering.
• Contribute to logging, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and production reliability.
• Support automated testing, CI/CD, and safe, repeatable releases in partnership with platform and infrastructure teams.

Hyperlocal & Collaboration

• Contribute to the backend services, integrations, and data flows supporting the AI-powered Hyperlocal content platform.
• Work closely with Product, editorial stakeholders, and engineering partners to shape technical priorities.
• Communicate technical trade-offs clearly and contribute to design discussions, code reviews, Agile ceremonies, and roadmap planning.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend foundation and meaningful frontend experience.
• Experience owning full-stack features or product areas from design through production.
• Strong JavaScript or TypeScript experience; Node.js is strongly preferred.
• Experience building frontend features with React, Next.js, or a comparable modern framework.
• Experience designing and operating RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, or comparable service interfaces.
• Experience with automated testing, production troubleshooting, and reliability-focused engineering decisions.
• Familiarity with cloud deployment, CI/CD, AWS, or comparable platform practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Technical Skills:

• Frontend: React, Next.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern frontend testing.
• Backend: Node.js, GraphQL, REST APIs, service integrations, and data modeling.
• Performance: CDN or edge caching, object caching, application caching, and incremental rendering.
• Platform: AWS, CI/CD, containerized deployments, logging, monitoring, and incident response.
• AI and content systems: Practical use of AI coding tools; experience with content, publishing, media, SEO, or localized content systems is helpful.

Direct WordPress experience is not required. More important is the ability to work effectively across frontend and backend systems and contribute to a high-traffic consumer platform.

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work four 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

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. 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.