Senior Software Development Engineer, Android

About the team

Zillow started in 2006 and is the most visited real estate website in the United States with over 10.5 billion visits in 2022, and an average of 220 million monthly unique users. Zillow helps high-intent movers find and win their home through digital solutions and first class partners. Our Zillow Mexico team will work with our US tech teams to simplify and automate the buying, selling and renting experience to make home a reality for more and more people.

We believe that creativity, collaboration, and innovation lead to success.

We actively encourage our teams to learn about the business and share their ideas.

We value and promote a diverse and inclusive workplace!

We are looking for a strong Senior Android Engineer who is used to taking on and driving initiatives and bringing new ideas—someone who holds their code to high standards and who is not afraid to give feedback on the product.

Customer focus and comfortability with cross‑functional partnerships is a huge plus. You should be able to lead the teams’ technology stack to ensure we’re building more robust, scalable, and operable systems. Our ideal candidate is also a technical leader who is passionate about mentorship and growing the potential of others.

We embrace agile software development practices, and believe deeply in building teams composed of all skills needed to deliver value (SDE, PM, SDM, SQE, Design, DE, etc).

We have a couple teams working to give people the power to manage and ingest lots of media and data. Looking for an engineer that can help lead the teams’ technology stacks to ensure we’re building the more robust, scalable, and affordable systems. Our ideal candidate is also a technical leader who has a real passion for mentoring and growing the potential of others.

• Work on the latest Android technologies and architectural patterns to develop world‑class mobile applications.
• Contribute to outstanding full‑stack mobile application development from concept to launch.
• Implement client‑side features and server APIs and services to support planned mobile functionality.
• Collaborate with an agile cross‑team of developers, testers, designers & program managers to build features that engage our users and understand their outstanding expectations.
• Consistently deliver performant, testable, scalable, highly‑readable code using OO best practices.

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 Mexico, with availability to travel to Mexico City, 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.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees 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. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In addition to a competitive base salary and benefits, this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.

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 have:

• BS/MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) and 6+ yrs of experience
• 6+ years of Android experience (Strong knowledge of Java and Kotlin)
• Ability to mentor and coach Junior and Senior developers
• Ability to drive cross‑team design and framework decisions
• Familiar with Compose for UI Development
• Strong architectural knowledge about MVVM and/or similar patterns
• Familiarity with modular Android architecture
• Ability to include and work closely with other engineers and other disciplines, most notably individuals in BE roles, product, and design.
• Experience delivering quality code on a deadline
• Strong experience…