Associate Software Engineer

About the Role

Realtor.com® is seeking an Associate Software Engineer to join their Owners & Sellers team. This role involves running mission-critical platforms that drive revenue, improving consumer experience, and achieving core business outcomes. The position offers opportunities for professional growth by leveraging the latest technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Own systems and evolutions for key parts of the Owners & Sellers platform, defining clear boundaries, contracts, and data models between services.
• Participate in and lead architectural discussions, contributing to technical design documents and implementation proposals.
• Maintain and improve the stability, readability, and scalability of the codebase, ensuring best practices across backend services and frontend architecture.
• Drive performance improvements and optimize Core Web Vitals (such as INP metrics) across pages.
• Lead operational excellence by ensuring services meet SLAs, influencing incident response, and continuously reducing incident volume and MTTR.
• Utilize AI coding assistants and LLMs proficiently to accelerate development velocity, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios, while exercising critical judgment to verify outputs for security and accuracy.
• Design AWS data pipelines and automate the toolchain (using Lambda, ECS, and CloudFormation) to enable instant service provisioning and zero-friction deployments.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Typescript
• React
• Node.js
• NextJS
• GraphQL
• AWS (e.g., EKS, Docker, managed databases)
• AI tools (e.g., Claude/Cursor/GitHub Copilot)
• PandaCSS/CSS3
• NewRelic and Splunk

Qualifications

• Software development experience, including internships, academic projects, or relevant professional experience, including time in large-scale, distributed systems.
• Full-stack proficiency: Experience in frontend web development with a strong focus on Typescript, React js and Apollo GraphQL combined with deep proficiency in backend languages like Node js and GraphQL.
• AI Tooling Mastery: Proven proficiency using modern AI-assisted SDLC environments and agents and drive AI adoption at scale.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise: Experience designing and operating cloud-native services on AWS (e.g., EKS, containers like Docker, managed databases) with modern CI/CD orchestration (e.g., CircleCI, ArgoCD, Kubernetes).
• Systems Design: Strong grounding in system design, data modeling, API design, responsive design principles, and CSS technologies like PandaCSS/CSS3.
• Observability & Data-Driven Mindset: Comfort working with observability tooling (metrics, logs, traces like NewRelic and Splunk) and using data to debug, optimize, and harden production systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/related field or equivalent professional experience.