Dir, Software Engineering
Realtor.com Careers
| Company | Realtor.com Careers |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Austin |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 30 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
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. About the Role
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
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
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