Senior Software Development Engineer - Zillow

About the team

About the role

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you’ll lead the delivery and ongoing support of projects from end-to-end. In addition, you will:

Contribute to the design of new features.

Review the code of your peers.

Advocate for standard methodologies.

Facilitate engineering discussions.

Mentor junior engineers.

Participate in an inclusive, energetic and highly multi-functional team.

This role has been categorized as a teleworker position. Teleworkers 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. Employees may live anywhere in the USA, with availability to travel within the country, as we recommend attendance at occasional office events. In addition to a competitive base salary and benefits, this position is also eligible for bonuses depending on factors such as experience, performance and location.

Who you are

Wondering if we're the right team for you? You'll excel in this team if you thrive on autonomy, seek out persistent problems, implement effective solutions quickly, and you are:

Bringing 5+ years of software development experience with ES6, React, Typescript, and GraphQL to power our web and mobile web applications and Python, NodeJS, and Go for APIs and services.

Experienced in a range of persistence strategies including relational and non-relational databases.

Highly skilled with multiple modern development technologies used to design, deliver, debug, and maintain front-end user interfaces and back-end software systems.

Recognized as a technical leader on your team for several years and have an impact beyond your team.

Passionate about setting standard methodologies and raising the bar for systems design, testing, code quality, and maintainability - not only for the team but for the entire engineering organization!

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of experience with Typescript, Go, or other strongly typed languages

Experience scaling relational databases, such as Aurora Postgres

Experience building internal platforms at scale

Experience in API design (GraphQL or REST)

Experience building distributed systems and microservices

Experience in Mortgage or Regulated Fintech

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 customers 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 that's reshaping