Director of Engineering, Customer Applications

Location: Austin, TX

Category: Technology

Job ID: 2286

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 Software Engineering – Customer Applications at Realtor.com®

Location: Austin, TX

We’re seeking a dynamic technology leader to spearhead the transformation of our agent and broker technology suite. By leveraging innovative tools and data-driven insights, you’ll empower our industry partners to connect with consumers and guide them through the complexities of buying, selling, and renting homes. Our web and mobile solutions span the entire real estate journey, delivering value at every step.

In this role, you’ll play a pivotal part in advancing our technology and tools to address critical challenges for both consumers and our partners. Leading multiple teams, you’ll define technical strategy and drive innovation to elevate our platform. As a leader, you will bring a passion for technology and fostering high-performing teams, inspiring them to build impactful, cutting-edge solutions that shape the future of real estate.

 

What you’ll do:

 

Shape the future of agent and broker technologies. Set the vision and technical direction for our core tools, enabling real estate professionals to solve key challenges in home buying, selling, and renting. Drive delivery and innovation. Lead teams in developing cutting-edge, high-quality solutions that enhance our product suite and create real impact for customers. Foster engineering excellence. Implement processes, tooling, training, and best practices to elevate technical delivery and ensure consistent product quality. Build high-performing teams. Cultivate a culture of collaboration, trust, and continuous growth, empowering engineering leaders and teams to exceed expectations. Lead with purpose. Develop and execute multi-year strategies that align technology advancements with business goals and customer needs.

 

 

How we work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

 

What you’ll bring:

 

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience 10+ years experience delivering web and mobile solutions and leading engineering teams to goals Strong leadership skills and experience hiring and motivating high-performing engineering teams. Strong ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners Strong ability to coach and mentor other engineering leaders Strong software engineering instincts: meaningful and deeply rooted opinions about sound architecture, code quality, and testing. 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®

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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