Senior Staff Software Engineer

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will play a critical role in driving technical leadership within the engineering team. You will be responsible for leading complex, high-impact projects and guiding the technical direction of the team. As an expert in your field, you will provide mentorship and ensure technical excellence. This is a hands-on role where you will architect and develop scalable full stack applications, influence technical decisions, and solve some of our most challenging engineering problems.

In this role, you will be responsible for advancing our Avail renter technology, tools, and data to solve key customer pain points. You will also set technical direction across multiple teams as we shape our core technology to best serve our business and customers. We're seeking technical leaders who are passionate about both technology and people, and strive to nurture high-performing teams to deliver cutting-edge products that make a real impact for our customers.

Top reasons to apply:

• Work on an Established, Industry-Leading Product: This role gives you the opportunity to work on Avail, an established and widely used platform in the do-it-yourself landlord industry. You will help evolve a product that already has meaningful market presence, real customer usage, and a clear role in helping independent landlords manage their rental businesses more effectively.
• Join a Tight-Knit, Collaborative Product Team: You will be part of a lean, highly collaborative product and engineering team where your work has direct visibility and impact. The team is close to the customer, close to the product, and small enough that strong technical leadership can meaningfully shape both execution and direction.
• Lead Meaningful Full-Stack Technical Impact: This is a senior technical leadership role with broad ownership across the stack, including web, mobile, backend systems, and platform architecture. You will help guide technical decisions, improve engineering practices, and drive scalable solutions that strengthen the Avail product experience end to end.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the design and architecture of complex systems and services to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Design) to deliver innovative solutions aligned with business goals.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and senior engineers, helping to level up the team’s skill set.
• Drive best practices in code quality, testing, and maintainability to ensure long-term sustainability.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of development processes.
• Influence and contribute to the engineering roadmap by identifying technology gaps, scaling challenges, and potential areas of improvement.
• Research and evaluate new tools, technologies, and methodologies to enhance the team's efficiency and scalability.
• Act as a technical expert, providing guidance in troubleshooting and debugging complex issues in production.
• Participate in recruitment, interviews, and onboarding to help grow the engineering team.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a senior or staff-level engineering role.
• Expertise in designing and building full stack applications
• Strong programming skills in Ruby on Rails
• Experience leading engineering initiatives and mentoring other engineers.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate complex technical challenges.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work across teams and influence decision-making.

How We Work:

We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. Our employees work three days in our Austin headquarters, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.

How we Reward you:

Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and well-being of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location