Software Engineer, Data Engineering

This client is deeply invested in developing the next generation of software and advertising products to power the real estate industry including agents and partners, their clients and the real estate industry as a whole.

The new Agent Software and Advertiser organization is at the forefront of this strategy with the development of innovative products including Listing Showcase as well as software to power showing management, feedback, offer management, recruiting, transaction management and analytics solutions. Our wide array of products and services are built on technological innovations crafted to bring efficiencies to all users.

The Business Data team within Agent Software and Advertising is hiring a Senior Data Engineer (12-month contract, remote) to lead analytics to uncover insights to drive both better business decisions and customer experiences across our business.

• Collaborate with team members across product, engineering, support, operations, marketing, sales and more to understand business needs and convert them to technical requirements.
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines to collect, process, and store large volumes of critical data from various sources.
• Provide data reliability and uptime by monitoring and troubleshooting data pipeline performance and scalability to ensure efficient operations.
• You are a "lazy" engineer - continuously seeking to improve the team's efficiency by automating repeatable processes.
• You are a fast learner with strong business insight and can collaborate with various product partners to quickly acquire a deep understanding of the business processes that feed into our team's data pipelines
• Authoritatively translate business use cases into well-thought-out data models that are easy to evolve with the business.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to non-technical audiences.
• You are a bar-raiser for engineering best practices - carefully reviewing specifications, designs, pull requests and providing constructive/helpful feedback to raise the quality of our team's output
• Consistently write high-quality code, refactor, and optimize for better scalability, performance, and readability.
• Provide leadership within the team and mentor other team members.

You are ready to bring your data and engineering expertise to transform what it means for the real estate industry to unlock the ability for consumers to dream, search, and find a home. You have an appreciation of the unique challenges posed by business-to-business product development and go-to-market.

• A degree (BS+) in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining data-intensive applications.
• Experience developing sophisticated data pipelines scaling to billions of rows with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability
• Extensive experience with modern data technologies such as Spark and Airflow.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala.
• Extensive experience with SQL
• Proven data modeling experience, translating business requirements into clean and easily evolvable data models.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a passion for collaborating across organizational boundaries.

• Experience working with cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Experience with Databricks
• Understanding of data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).

We value the experience and perspective of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds. We encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences.

As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, this client and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit our sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on us to help make it easier to move.

The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.

Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages as well as parental…