Senior Software Development Engineer

About the team

Zillow Group is on a mission to revolutionize the real estate process and make it easier for buyers, sellers, and renters. Our goal is to provide a seamless experience from start to finish, helping you find, finance, and move into your dream home. We are taking an "Integrated Mortgage" approach, ensuring that every step of the journey is connected and hassle-free.

The Zillow Home Loans (ZHL) engineering team as a whole plays a crucial role in achieving our ambitious goals and delivering an exceptional customer experience. We are connectors, leaders, and dedicated collaborators, working together to streamline the real estate transaction process and create a delightful and trustworthy journey for our customers. We work on every part of the stack, and collaborate with stakeholders across Zillow to make mortgages a transparent and seamless piece of the housing super app.

The ZHL QUAFFLE team builds custom software that loan operators use every day to complete borrower applications and assess pricing configuration and eligibility. Loan operators help borrowers navigate the complex process of getting their mortgage financed, and finding the best options to get them into the home of their dreams. As part of the QUAFFLE team, you will help create a best-in-class suite of tools, technologies, and processes, which - through seamless integration with each other and the broader Zillow technology ecosystem - support and delight borrowers from their first interaction with ZHL until closing.

Our tech stack is primarily:

-ES6, React, Typescript, and GraphQL to power our web applications
-Python and NodeJS for our APIs and services
-SQL Server and DynamoDb as persistence layers
-AWS services like Step Functions, ECS, Fargate, and Lambda
-Datadog and Splunk for monitoring

About the role

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you’ll lead the delivery and ongoing support of projects from end-to-end. In addition, you will:

• Deliver high-quality, testable code while clearly communicating about timelines.

• Contribute to the technical and product direction of new features.

• Review code and weave quality into everything we do.

• Pragmatically advocate for excellence in our engineering processes.

• Facilitate high-value collaboration between engineers within and across teams.

• Mentor junior engineers, and upskill everyone on your team. We want to learn from you!

• Set the tone for how we work on an ambitious, inclusive, and multi-functional team.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $158,200.00 - $252,800.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Who you are

Wondering if we're the right team for you? You'll excel in this team if you thrive on autonomy, seek out persistent problems, implement effective solutions quickly, and you are:

• Bringing 5-7 years of software development experience or relevant transferable skills.

• Highly skilled with modern development technologies used to design, deliver, debug, and maintain front-end user interfaces and back-end software systems.

• Recognized as a technical leader on your team for several years and have an impact beyond your team.

• Enthusiastic about collaborating with engineers, product managers, program managers, and analysts on critical projects.

• Passionate about setting standard methodologies and raising the bar for testing, code quality, and maintainability - not only for the team but for the entire engineering organization.

• Comfortable distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, resolving ambiguity, and balancing ambitious objectives.

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