Senior Software Development Engineer

About the team

The iOS Customer Media Experience team at Zillow works on features to provide detailed information on homes to help customers make informed decisions. Our team manages the Showcase Detail Page and the Virtual Staging AI on Zillow. We build innovative solutions for the best shopping experiences for our home shoppers and real estate agents. Using groundbreaking technologies, the CMX team works across product, research, engineering, and business to enable people to walk through a home and virtually stage a home using AI. We also offer tools to assess homes, making it easier for customers to find their ideal home. Customer feedback is essential in shaping our design choices for the best user experience.

About the role

Responsibilities:

• Identify, scope, and lead complex projects with wide impact across the company.
• Work multi-functionally to align technical initiatives and decisions, including product, design, and other engineering teams.
• Contribute to the continued development of a long-term technical strategy for iOS.
• Apply technical expertise to decision making, demonstrating an analytical approach to identifying constraints and developing effective solutions.
• Solve hard engineering and user experience problems, solving them in an elegant and seamless manner.
• Take ownership of features and areas of the mobile application that will affect millions of users.
• Identify gaps in our systems, ideate solutions, and help steer the execution of the solution.
• Work with Product Managers, and UX designers on product feature requirements and estimation
• Code Reviews of peers in the same team and cross-team to deliver best-in-class code quality.
• Own mobile features that deliver critical values to Zillow's partners.

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 addition to a competitive base salary and benefits, this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.

Who you are

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong OO programming experience: Swift, Objective-C.

• Experience working with REST APIs
• Performance and scalability in consumer apps at scale: instrumentation, startup time optimization, rendering performance, memory profiling, and safe concurrency for feed/detail-heavy screens.
• Testing discipline: snapshot testing for SwiftUI, unit and integration tests for view models and networking layers

• Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture.
• Experience in setting technical direction, planning, and successfully completing large projects that involve multiple teams. Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across teams and organizations.
• Ability to lead and work closely with other engineers and individuals in BE roles, product, and design, across various fields and subject areas.
• Ability to break down complex projects into components or achievements that can easily be picked up by other engineers.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Experience with Agile development processes.
• Ability to mentor and coach Jr developers.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of GraphQL APIs
• Knowledge of tools like Apollo, Codegen, Schema Introspection
• Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks, event taxonomy, and guardrails to keep UI performant under instrumentation.
• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools to boost productivity while maintaining code quality.

Get to know us

At Zillow, we're reimagining how people move-through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help customers navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you'll be part of a company that's reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.

No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry-and your career-forward, together.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Client-provided location(s): Flexible / Remote, Mexico City, Mexico

Job ID: Zillow-P748118

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-24T18:29:36