Principal Software Development Engineer, Design Systems – Web

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $185.8k - $312.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Zillow

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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

• Set the technical direction and vision for Constellation Web • Define component architecture, styling strategy, framework upgrades, and major releases • Make architecture decisions for web development across Zillow • Partner with the front-end platform team as platforms evolve alongside AI-assisted development • Align senior engineering leaders on foundational technical changes and investment decisions • Guide consuming teams through adoption and upgrades across varied technology stacks and application architectures • Partner with design systems designers, product managers, engineers, and other teams • Own end-to-end performance across complex pages, sub-apps, and micro-frontends • Drive resolution of performance issues with the appropriate teams • Own release safety, code quality, and accessibility standards for published packages • Contribute code where it provides the most leverage • Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leadership • Define how Constellation Web is built and used with coding agents • Shape support for AI-generated and server-driven UI while maintaining quality standards

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of front-end engineering experience, including several years in platform engineering • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience • Expert-level React, TypeScript, and CSS architecture skills • Experience with composable component APIs and build-time styling systems such as Panda CSS, vanilla-extract, StyleX, or Tailwind • Strong architectural judgment across build tooling, server rendering, and platform integrations • Experience leading multi-phase migrations and major upgrades of shared libraries across consuming applications • Deep web performance expertise, including Core Web Vitals, especially INP • Deep accessibility expertise, including ARIA, focus management, keyboard behavior, and screen reader testing • Strong AI fluency and experience using agentic coding tools • Recognized technical leadership, mentoring, influence, clear writing, and technical narratives • Experience with headless component architectures or styling-engine migrations (nice-to-have) • Experience with micro-frontends, server-side rendering and hydration, or Next.js (nice-to-have) • Experience evolving multi-brand design systems with shared design tokens and theming (nice-to-have) • Experience supporting AI-generated or server-driven UI (nice-to-have) • Must reside in one of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity awards • Remote work from a physical location of choice • Flexible distributed work through Cloud HQ • Equal employment opportunity and disability accommodations

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