Manager, Software Engineering - RDC

About

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, ® 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, ® 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.

We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to join our RDC Next organization. The charter of the RDC Next team is to build and deliver innovative solutions across the real estate ecosystem that deepen relationships with MLS organizations, consumers, brokers, and agents. This is a high-impact opportunity to lead the squad building the product that will change the experience of agents and consumers through the home buying journey.

• Direct & Support:
  Lead and empower a squad of senior, staff, and senior staff backend engineers, fostering an environment of high autonomy, trust, and continuous improvement.
• Career Mentorship & Growth:
  Provide nuanced coaching tailored to high-level individual contributors. Guide senior engineers toward staff tiers and help staff and senior staff engineers broaden their systemic and organizational influence.
• Agile Execution:
  Actively remove roadblocks, manage dependencies, and rally the team to deliver high-quality, incremental value using Agile methodologies.

• Microservice & Feature Excellence:
  Guide the team to rapidly deliver scalable, operationally excellent product features for the RDC+ search-to-own platform, encompassing user-facing capabilities, core microservices, and data architectures.
• Roadmap Alignment:
  Partner with engineers, product managers, technical leads, architects, and third party vendors across the organization to define backend roadmaps and maintain the architectural integrity of RDC+ products.
• AI‑Native Workflow Governance:
  Establish team-wide standards for AI‑assisted development, ensuring effective utilization of LLMs for velocity while maintaining critical judgment over security and performance.

• 1 to 2+ years of experience directly leading and managing software engineering teams within a fast-moving technology organization.
• 6+ years of overall hands‑on professional backend software engineering experience, with a proven track record of developing highly performant distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience managing or leading senior and staff-level technical talent, with a proven capability to influence and earn the trust of high-level engineers without micromanaging.
• Deep understanding of modern backend architectures, microservices design patterns, relational and non-relational databases (such as Postgres or MySQL), and AWS cloud platforms.

• Core Language Stack:
  Proven technical depth in one or more of our target backend languages:
  Python, Type Script, Rust, Go, or Java.
• Cloud & Infrastructure:
  Advanced understanding of AWS ecosystems and modern distributed backend architectures.
• AI Literacy:
  Practical experience or passion for integrating AI-native workflows (such as Copilot or Cursor) into the SDLC ethically and securely to optimize developer efficiency.
• Methodologies:
  Strong grounding in Agile execution, CI/CD pipelines, and data-driven delivery metrics.

• Nuanced Communication:
  Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align cross-functional partners (Product, Design, Architecture) on a shared engineering roadmap.
• Outcome-Driven Focus: A results-oriented mindset centered on rapidly shipping high-quality code, measuring success, and iteratively optimizing platform performance.
• Mission Alignment:
  Ability to connect the…