Senior Software Development Engineer, Full Stack

About the team

Zillow started in 2006 and is the most visited real estate website in the United States with over 10.5 billion visits in 2022, and an average of 220 million monthly unique users. Zillow helps high‑intent movers find and win their home through digital solutions and first class partners. Our Zillow Mexico team will work with our US tech teams to simplify and automate the buying, selling and renting experience to make home a reality for more and more people.

We believe that creativity, collaboration, and innovation lead to success.

We actively encourage our teams to learn about the business and share their ideas.

We value and promote a diverse and inclusive workplace!

Join Zillow’s Consumer Media Experiences(CMX) team to build and run the backend that powers Zillow Showcase—high‑res photos, video, and immersive tours on our most visible consumer surfaces and Zillow Interactive Floor Plan, Virtual Staging products. You’ll shape core architecture, collaborate with AI/ML teams and Photography Media teams within the Rich Media organization on new media types, and own services in production with strong reliability practices.

If you like distributed systems, clean APIs, and shipping features customers can see, this is the place.

The Consumer Media Experiences (CMX) Backend & SQE team, founded in 2023, is a focused team of backend and quality engineers building the systems that power Zillow’s most immersive, AI‑driven consumer experiences. We operate within the Zillow AI & Experiences and Rich Media organizations, leading innovation in high‑impact media products across Zillow’s business lines.

In this role, you will design and operate the backend services that deliver media data, AI‑generated assets, and listing data for Zillow Showcase Listings—our premium listing product—as well as Interactive Floor Plan, Zillow’s flagship AI‑powered experience across web and mobile. You will work on distributed systems that ingest, transform, and serve rich media from a diverse and evolving set of sources, ensuring seamless delivery across Zillow’s consumer surfaces.

This role directly contributes to building scalable, highly available, and reliable production systems using Go, Type Script, Python, and Java—with quality, performance, and operational excellence as foundational expectations.

• Design & Build Distributed Systems:
  Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend services and APIs. Strong proficiency in Go (preferred), Type Script, Python, or Java, with the ability to ramp quickly on new technologies as needed.
• Graph
  
  QL Schema Ownership:
  Define, evolve, and maintain Graph
  
  QL schemas that power consumer‑facing experiences across web and mobile platforms, ensuring consistency, performance, and clarity of data contracts.
• Data and Pipeline Engineering:
  Design and operate resilient data across asynchronous systems (e.g., Kafka or similar event streams), queues, and synchronous service APIs. Emphasize correctness, idempotency, fault tolerance, and throughput at scale.
• Product Ownership & Operational Excellence:
  Take full ownership of services in production, including on‑call participation, proactive monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvements to reliability, latency, and scalability against defined service‑level metrics.
• Cross‑Functional
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Partner closely with Product, UX, and engineering teams across the stack. Align with upstream and downstream dependencies, define clear service contracts, and make thoughtful trade‑offs that balance product velocity with long‑term technical durability.
• Technical Communication & Documentation:
  Author high‑quality design documents and technical proposals. Communicate decisions and status clearly to unblock teams and drive alignment. Conduct rigorous code reviews within and across teams to uphold best‑in‑class code quality, maintainability, and system integrity.
• Quality & Sustainability:
  Champion effective testing strategies, targeted automation, and pragmatic engineering standards that scale beyond a single initiative.
• Customer Impact Focus:
  Deliver backend capabilities that elevate…