Director, Software Engineering

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Austin, TX
Hybrid
7+ Years Experience
Big Data • Real Estate • Software
Realtor.com® is an open real estate marketplace built for everyone.
The Role
Director of Engineering position at Realtor.com® in Austin, TX. Responsible for setting the vision for technology, managing engineering teams, guiding product development, and driving engineering excellence. Requires 8-10+ years of experience in managing engineering teams for web/mobile applications.
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At Realtor.com®, we have among the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all the online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone.

Building your career? Build it better at Realtor.com®. Join us and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.

Director of Engineering, Customer Apps at Realtor.com®

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid, 3 days on-site)

Are you an engineering leadership expert? Are you striving to build consumer-facing product and manage a customer organization? If you want to pursue your professional goals as you help grow an innovative real estate tech company, this work is for you. Join us as our newest Director of Engineering for Customer Apps and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.

What you’ll do:

  • Help set the vision for our next generation of technology to support our agent & broker products and help us plan goals and milestones that lead our teams to achieve that vision.
  • Guide these teams to rapidly deliver improvements to our technology stack that improves productivity for engineers so they can onboard quickly and iteratively effectively.
  • Manage the day-to-day operations of our agent & broker products, coordinating releases and responding to incidents.
  • Drive engineering excellence and governance around best practices through training, documentation, process and tooling.
  • Construct and maintain an environment of integrity, trust, high quality, and continuous improvement.
  • Motivate the team and enthusiastically rally them around delivering against a wide variety of organizational initiatives.

What you’ll bring:

  • Leadership skills and experience hiring and motivating high-performing engineering teams.
  • Ability to coach and mentor engineering managers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers.
  • 8-10+ years experience managing engineering teams that shipped web/mobile applications.
  • 5+ years experience managing managers.
  • Strong software engineering instincts: meaningful and deeply rooted opinions about sound quality/speed trade-offs, code quality, and testing.
  • Strong ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teams/roles.
  • Ability to thrive in a collaborative work environment and excel under pressure, with experience working on sophisticated, large-scale, time-critical projects.
  • A driven and data-informed product development approach.

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com

Building your career? Build it better at Realtor.com®. Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to help people meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. People are our foundation—the core that drives us passionately forward. 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.

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. People are our foundation—the core that drives us passionately forward. 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.

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The Company
Austin, TX
1,900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1995

What We Do

We pioneered the world of digital real estate more than 25 years ago. Today, through our website and mobile apps, we are a trusted guide for consumers, empowering more people to find their way home by breaking down barriers, helping them make the right connections, and creating confidence through expert insights and guidance. For professionals, we are a trusted partner for business growth, offering consumer connections and branding solutions that help them succeed in today's on-demand world.

Why Work With Us

The way home begins with you. With a diverse team of experts alongside you, you’ll help us reach new heights at the forefront of the digital real estate space. Bring your extensive knowledge and deep expertise and collaborate with other passionate visionaries to lead our industry and revolutionize the way people find home, in every form.

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