Dir, Software Engineering

Realtor.com is looking for a Director of Engineering, for the Consumer experience to be responsible for building and operating critical product experiences, platforms and services. This leader will oversee managers and senior technical leaders across multiple domains that support core revenue for the business.

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can operate at both the organizational and technical levels. You will shape strategy, develop leaders, raise the engineering bar, and guide modernization efforts across web, mobile, and service boundaries. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and peer engineering organizations to deliver customer value while improving speed, quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Top reasons to apply include:

• Lead a broad, high-impact consumer engineering portfolio that directly shapes experiences used by millions of consumers.
• Influence both business outcomes and technical direction across revenue-critical products, shared platforms, and modernization efforts.
• Tackle meaningful technical challenges across web, native, backend, and platform systems in an environment where strategy and execution are tightly connected.
• AI-forward culture: The org is actively building and deploying AI-powered tooling and consumer experiences with 100% AI adoption as a company goal
• Join a role with real visibility, strong cross-functional partnership, and the opportunity to leave a lasting organizational footprint.
• Senior team: You'll work alongside Staff and Sr. Staff engineers who are already deep domain experts

What you'll do:

• Consumer Strategy & Execution
• Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, and business stakeholders to shape roadmaps that improve consumer experience and business performance
• Translate company and org strategy into engineering plans, staffing priorities, delivery milestones, and measurable outcomes
• Drive execution across a portfolio of initiatives with varying levels of ambiguity, dependency complexity, and organizational visibility
• Technical Strategy and Execution
• Set technical direction across a diverse portfolio of consumer applications, platforms, and services
• Guide architectural decisions spanning web, native, backend, and platform boundaries
• Lead modernization efforts that improve scalability, consistency, observability, security, and developer productivity
• Raise the quality bar for engineering design, code health, testing strategy, CI/CD, reliability, and operational excellence using AI from the get go
• AI and Engineering Effectiveness
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices that improve planning, coding, testing, documentation, and operational workflows
• Help the organization evolve toward systems and practices that are easier for both humans and AI tools to understand, operate, and extend
• Build an engineering organization that can scale quality and delivery without scaling complexity at the same rate
• People & Organization
• Lead an engineering organization through managers and senior leaders, creating clarity in structure, ownership, and accountability
• Coach, develop, and support leaders through regular feedback, performance management, succession planning, and career growth
• Create an inclusive, high-accountability culture where engineers and leaders can do strong work, grow their impact, and operate with trust
• Hire and retain strong engineering talent while maintaining a high bar for leadership, technical judgment, and collaboration

What we're looking for:

• Required
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years leading engineering teams, including managing managers
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Strong technical foundation in modern web development and architecture (TypeScript, React, GraphQL, AWS).
• Comfortable operating across levels: from strategy to critical technical and delivery decisions.
• Strong instinct for connecting engineering execution to business metrics: you think in terms of conversion, retention, and revenue impact, not just shipping features.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management able to influence without authority, represent platform value to product and business leaders, and navigate competing priorities across multiple stream-aligned teams
• A collaborative, empathetic leader with strong cross-functional communication skills.
• Ability to identify and utilize each individual team members strengths, benefiting the greater organization
• Preferred
• Experience with AI developer tooling strategy: evaluating, deploying, and driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools across an engineering organization
• Exposure to commerce, subscription systems, or monetization surfaces.
• Familiarity with modern web and service architectures using technologies such as GraphQL, AWS, event-driven systems, observability platforms, and CI/CD pipelines in large engineering environments.
• Experience with mobile (iOS/Android architecture, React Native or native)

Benefits that fit your life

Your well-being matters to us, and we want you to live your best life. These are just some of the ways we can help keep you and your family safe, healthy, and happy.

• Physical health
• Flexible medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Reproductive care (most locations)
• Access to fertility and family-building services (most locations)
• Gender-affirming coverage, so you can feel and be your truest self
• Access to an inclusive, integrated virtual healthcare navigation program (most locations)
• Autism programs to support you and your family (most locations).
• Telemedicine services (most locations).
• Emotional well-being
• Employee Assistance Program, including work/life counseling and guidance, legal services, and financial services
• Generous paid time off (sick time, vacation time, and various leave programs) to meet your unique needs
• Phone and video counseling services to support your emotional health
• Mental health support for children ages 18 months to 17 years (most locations)
• Access to a mindfulness app to support your emotional well-being
• Financial health
• 401(k) with 3.5% employer match (3% in Canada)
• Accidental death and disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement to support career-related studies
• Debt management support through online tools, education, and expert help
• Caregiving support
• Exceptional paid parental leave to help you welcome your newest family addition
• Lactation support services for new parents (most locations)
• Backup child and adult care (most locations)
• A parenting app featuring child development tracking, parenting tips, and a supportive community of anonymous parents and caregivers (most locations)
• Access to a healthcare concierge service that supports families with any complex, chronic, or ongoing care needs (most locations)
• Lifestyle programs
• Free DoorDash DashPass with $0 delivery fees
• Wellness360 Program that helps you learn about and engage with your own well-being through fun health challenges and activities
• Discounted auto and home insurance
• Identity theft protection
• An Adoption Assistance Program to help financially support your family's growth
• Charity matching, so you can give back to the causes that mean the most to you
• Personalized expert college coach support as you and your family navigate the college admissions process (most locations)
• Pet Insurance to help keep your best pal healthy (most locations)

We've got people talking

If you want to understand what 2030 will look like, come to Realtor.com. We're groundbreaking right now, so you can be part of that. - Gus, Technology

Realtor.com has been extremely supportive of my career aspirations. I started as a Customer Success Representative and am now a Senior Manager within the Customer Care organization. - Meek, Consumer Experience and Customer Care

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