Sr Staff Software Engineer

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.

Realtor.com is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Consumer Services backend platform as it consolidates into the Services & API Gateways platform.

This hands-on role will lead architecture and execution across the federated graph and API platform, subgraph transition work, revenue-critical lead-submission services, and shared backend libraries.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on backend architect who can balance design and implementation with cross-team technical leadership, improve operational resilience, and help domain teams safely adopt the shared graph, gateway, governance, and paved-road platform.

• Own the technical direction for the relevant subgraphs during the transition, including the platform responsibilities that remain in the consolidated gateway/federation stack.
• Lead Hestia and Pantheon consolidation, federated-graph architecture, API/BFF standards, service boundaries, schema evolution, caching, circuit breakers, SLOs, and observability.
• Design and deliver reliable, scalable Node.js and TypeScript services using GraphQL, Apollo Federation, AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Protect the revenue-critical lead-submission path while executing the planned transition of inquiry business logic to Connections and the decomposition of subgraph business logic to the appropriate domain teams.
• Establish federation governance and reference implementations for domain teams, including self-service onboarding, composition checks, breaking-change checks, schema standards, health scorecards, and operational readiness across 32+ subgraphs.