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.
Are you passionate about building software solutions to solve real customer problems? Do you like fast-paced work environments? Are you excited about modern programming languages, design patterns, and scalable architectures? You’ll be right at home here!
You will be joining the Client Mobile tech team. At Realtor, our technology team participates in the research and development of scalable applications, identifying new technologies and trends to enhance our products and business. We build innovative solutions to help customers in their buying, renting, and selling journeys by connecting them with real estate agents and partners. Join us to push the boundaries of what’s possible and learn from world-class talent that promotes a culture of experimentation and learning. A Staff Software Engineer at Realtor.com is a technical leader who thrives in ambiguity and delivers durable solutions for our consumers and customers. You anticipate long‑term business needs, make pragmatic trade‑offs, and provide system‑wide design guidance across teams. You collaborate closely
with Product, Design, Data, and partner engineering groups, and you raise the bar through mentorship,exemplary code, and strong engineering practices.
What you’ll do:
- Own the end‑to‑end architecture and development of high‑impact mobile experiences for iOS and Android using React Native and Expo, setting patterns for reliability, performance, and accessibility.
- Lead technical discovery and roadmap definition for the Client Mobile domain; influence adjacent teams to align on APIs, data contracts, and shared platforms.
- Implement dynamic, data‑rich user interfaces backed by GraphQL (Apollo Client) and REST, including robust caching, pagination, offline support, and resilient error handling.
- Drive experimentation at scale (feature flags, A/B tests) to measure impact, iterate quickly, and ensure statistical rigor and guardrails.
- Create reusable components and frameworks (design system, navigation, analytics, experimentation, data quality) that accelerate teams and improve consistency.
- Define and improve mobile CI/CD (code signing, build pipelines, automated tests, phased rollouts), and shepherd App Store/Play Store releases, monitoring stability and KPIs.
- Lead production readiness and incident response, including on‑call participation, root cause analysis, and corrective action plans that prevent regressions.
- Mentor and develop engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and clear technical documentation; contribute to hiring and onboarding.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and make buy/build/retire recommendations that improve developer experience, quality, and time‑to‑value.
- Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum environment with Product Managers, Designers, Analysts, and Engineers deliver outcomes, not just output.
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
What you’ll bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years building mobile applications and 3+ years delivering React Native apps at scale with TypeScript.
- Deep expertise in client‑side architecture and patterns.
- Strong proficiency with Apollo GraphQL (queries, mutations, subscriptions, cache policies, normalization) and experience shaping client‑server contracts with backend teams.
- Proven experience building large‑scale, consumer‑grade apps, including offline experiences, push notifications, deep links, background tasks, and secure local storage.
- Operational maturity: mobile CI/CD, code signing/Provisioning, phased rollouts, crash and behavior analytics, and observability.
- Experience with system design, trade‑offs, and distributed systems fundamentals; ability to articulate and document decisions and risks.
- Familiarity with our broader stack or ability to learn it quickly (Python, React Native, TypeScript, Next.js) and cloud platforms (AWS services such as EC2/ECS/Lambda, S3, RDS).
- Strong software engineering practices (testing strategy, code reviews, documentation) and a track record of mentoring and influencing across teams.
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.
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