Principal Software Development Engineer, Full Stack

🕒 September 8

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $181.8k - $305.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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First seen by Remote Rocketship September 8

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Zillow

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2006

🏠 Real Estate

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

💰 $4.1M Post-IPO Equity on 2012-12

Real Estate • eCommerce • B2C

Zillow is a leading real estate and property rental marketplace that provides comprehensive information on homes, apartments, and properties for sale or rent. It offers users tools to search for properties, calculate mortgage rates, and connect with real estate agents. The platform also features innovative algorithms that provide Zestimates, which are estimated market values of homes. Zillow is a go-to resource for individuals looking to buy, sell, or rent properties, as well as for agents and brokers who want to reach a wider audience.

📋 Description

• Architect and drive end-to-end design of complex, high-scale web applications and services across user interfaces, APIs, data stores, and cloud infrastructure • Lead technical direction and decision-making for multi-team initiatives • Establish engineering standards and best practices for full-stack development, testing, and operations • Collaborate with product management, UX, and cross-functional partners to translate business objectives into engineering plans and technical roadmaps • Mentor and coach senior and staff engineers • Guide technical reviews and design forums • Resolve systemic technical challenges involving service boundaries, data models, and integration strategies • Champion code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response • Evaluate and introduce technologies, frameworks, and architectures to improve developer experience, scalability, and operational excellence

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production web applications • Significant experience across front-end and back-end components • Track record leading technical design and delivery of complex, high-scale systems or platforms involving multiple teams and services • Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing engineering practices and standards across teams • Experience working in an agile, product-focused environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity awards based on experience, performance, and location • Remote work from a physical location of the employee’s choice • Flexible work location through Cloud HQ • Equal employment opportunity and workplace accommodations

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