Full-Stack Software Engineer

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.

At ®, Spotlight Listings and Agent Directory sit at the intersection of consumer decision-making and professional value creation. Spotlight Listings is a premium merchandising experience that helps agents increase listing visibility through enhanced presentation, branding, and placement, while Agent Directory helps consumers discover and evaluate the right real estate professional through richer profile content, better filtering, and stronger trust signals.

We are looking for a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer to serve as a technical anchor for this team, driving the architecture and delivery of experiences across web frontends, APIs, and supporting services. You will help shape premium listing experiences and agent discovery surfaces used by consumers at critical moments in their home journey, while building systems that also create measurable value for real estate professionals.

• You will be leading a brand new team in a growing space in our Consumer organization.
• You will be exposed to working with multiple teams to influence the product and technical roadmap of the experience.
• You enjoy working in an environment where AI accelerates the engineering work you define.

As a Staff Engineer, you won’t just write code; you will define the technical standards for how we build, scale, and evolve Spotlight Listings and Agent Directory across the stack.

• Architectural Leadership:
  Own the end-to-end architecture of our consumer web experiences and the supporting backend services that power premium listing presentation, agent discovery, profile connections, and lead paths.
• Full-Stack Platform Thinking:
  Design cohesive systems across React/Next.js frontends, Node.js services, GraphQL and REST APIs, experimentation layers, and operational observability so that client and server systems work together as a reliable platform.
• Performance at Scale:
  Drive initiatives that improve Core Web Vitals, rendering performance, accessibility, resiliency, and software quality across some of our most important consumer-facing surfaces.
• Premium Experience Innovation:
  Partner with Product, Design, and Data to build experiences that make listings feel more differentiated and informative, and that help consumers more confidently choose homes and agents.
• Cross-Functional Influence:
  Work closely with partner teams across search, listing detail pages, profile systems, mobile, and platform services to align on integrations, rollout strategy, and long-term technical direction.
• Technical Leadership:
  Raise the bar through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and the establishment of reusable patterns and paved-road approaches for other teams to build on.

• Technical Mastery: 8+ years of software engineering experience, including deep experience building consumer-facing web applications and backend services ong proficiency with Type Script, React, modern web tooling, and backend technologies such as Node.js, GraphQL, and REST APIs.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Systems Thinker:
  You are comfortable designing end-to-end solutions that span UI architecture, APIs, services, experimentation, analytics, and cloud-native infrastructure. You know how to build for scale, reliability, and long-term evolution.
• Operational Excellence:
  You understand testing strategy, observability, CI/CD, and release quality, and you care deeply about building systems that are easy to…