Sr. Backend Software Engineer

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® 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, Realtor.com® 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.

Who We Are

At Realtor.com®, we’re on a mission to make buying, selling, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone, serving tens of millions of consumers each month across our web and mobile experiences.

The Notifications team sits within the Consumer and owns the centralized notification platform that powers relevant, timely, and valuable communications to our consumers across push and email channels.

Our stack includes Kafka, AWS EKS and Lambda, SQS, MongoDB, Redis, AWS Secrets Manager, and Serverless, with a strong focus on observability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.

About The Role

We are looking for a Sr. Backend Software Engineer to join the Notifications team and help design, build, and operate the next generation of our notification platform.

In this role, you will :

• Own core backend services that power notification preferences, home alerts, and notification delivery for initiatives like Project Columbus (Updated Notification Preferences and Alerts by Geo).
• Work across event-driven architectures, real-time delivery pipelines, and storage systems that serve notification history and campaign traffic at scale.
• Partner closely with CRM Marketing, Search, Mobile teams to deliver reliable, observable, and cost‑efficient notification experiences.

What You’ll Do

Design, Build, and Operate Backend Services

Reliability, Observability, and Operational Excellence

Cross‑Team Collaboration and Delivery

Engineering Excellence and Mentorship

What You’ll Bring

Core Qualifications

Nice To Have

How We Work :

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. Our employees work three days in our Austin headquarters where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

How We Reward You :

Realtor.com® is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to :

Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage

Family forming benefits

13 Paid Holidays

Flexible Time Off

8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off

Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match

Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs

1 : 1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions

Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program

Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal : finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and / or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and / or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.