Software Engineer, Backend

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.

A Software Engineer at Realtor.com® is an autonomous contributor in the team. You solve problems with the help of your teammates, applying technologies with engineering best practices. You work with your team to design and build software that solves consumer and customer problems. You write stable code that a software engineer unfamiliar with the system can understand. You learn to make appropriate trade-offs and re-use where possible. You engage with customers, stakeholders, and peers to deliver exciting features for our customers. You help the team by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, and team planning.

Reasons to apply:

• Your code will ship on day one with real mentorship - You won't be working on throwaway features. Your work will ship to products used by real estate agents and consumers across the country, with Staff and Senior Engineers who care about clean code and helping you grow.
• You'll build real systems, not just features - From APIs and backend services to dashboards and lead delivery systems, you'll work on modern, scalable technology that solves real business problems.

What will you do?

• Participate in system architecture and design reviews
• Develop solutions that are of high quality, scalable, and reliable
• Work collaboratively in squads composed of Product Managers, Designers, Analysts, and Engineers.
• Investigate and prototype technologies that can be leveraged to introduce innovations
• Be self-directed, take initiative, and drive towards solutions with guidance

We believe in leveraging the best tools to solve problems faster. You will be expected to utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs proficiently to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios. Beyond simple usage, this role requires the critical judgment to verify AI-generated outputs for security, performance, and accuracy. You should be comfortable integrating AI tooling into your daily workflow to eliminate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on high-impact architectural and strategic engineering challenges.

What will you bring?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 2+ years experience in software development
• Experience in developing scalable systems
• Experience in software development and a strong willingness to learn the [| technology stack, including Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, NumPy, Pandas), React, Node.js, and GraphQL
• Experience working with relational or non-relational databases.
• Experience with AI, Machine Learning, and AWS knowledge preferred
• Experience delivering high value to customers quickly, and frequently, with regular feedback and Support
• Experience evaluating trade-offs between design approaches
• Software engineering best practices (e.g., testing, code reviews, documentation).

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

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.