About the job
As the leading platform trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been revolutionizing online real estate for more than 25 years, bridging the gap between buyers, sellers, and renters with reliable insights and expert guidance. Our comprehensive toolkit significantly influences the real estate industry while simplifying the home-buying journey for consumers, ensuring an intuitive user experience that empowers informed decision-making.
We invite you to join our mission in making it easier for individuals to find their way home by breaking down barriers, fostering connections, and instilling confidence through professional advice.
We harness cutting-edge tools to expedite problem-solving. You will be expected to adeptly use AI coding assistants and large language models (LLMs) to enhance development speed, create boilerplate code, and resolve intricate debugging challenges. This position necessitates sharp judgment in assessing the security, performance, and accuracy of AI-generated outputs. Comfort with integrating AI tools into your daily operations is crucial, allowing you to concentrate on impactful architectural and strategic engineering tasks.
Who We Are
At Realtor.com®, our mission is to simplify the processes of buying, selling, and living in homes, making it a rewarding experience for everyone. Our platform attracts millions of users each month across both web and mobile channels.
The Notifications team, part of the Consumer segment, manages the centralized notification platform that delivers timely and relevant communications to our users through push notifications and emails.
Our technology stack includes Kafka, AWS EKS and Lambda, SQS, MongoDB, Redis, and AWS Secrets Manager, with a strong emphasis on observability, cost-effectiveness, and operational excellence.
About The Role
We are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the Notifications team to help design, develop, and maintain the next generation of our notification platform.
In this role, you will:
- Take ownership of core backend services that drive notification preferences, home alerts, and notification delivery for initiatives like Project Columbus (Updated Notification Preferences and Alerts by Geo).
- Engage with event-driven architectures, real-time delivery pipelines, and storage systems that handle notification history and campaign traffic at scale.
- Collaborate closely with CRM Marketing, Search, and Mobile teams to ensure reliable, observable, and cost-effective notification experiences.

