Senior Software Development Engineer, Full Stack
About the team
Zillow started in 2006 and is the most visited real estate website in the United States with over 10.5 billion visits in 2022, and an average of 220 million monthly unique users. Zillow helps high-intent movers find and win their home through digital solutions and first class partners. Our Zillow Mexico team will work with our US tech teams to simplify and automate the buying, selling and renting experience to make home a reality for more and more people.
We believe that creativity, collaboration, and innovation lead to success.
We actively encourage our teams to learn about the business and share their ideas.
We value and promote a diverse and inclusive workplace!
Elevator pitch
Join Zillow's Consumer Media Experiences(CMX) team to build and run the backend that powers Zillow Showcase-high‑res photos, video, and immersive tours on our most visible consumer surfaces and Zillow Interactive Floor Plan, Virtual Staging products. You'll shape core architecture, collaborate with AI/ML teams and Photography Media teams within the Rich Media organization on new media types, and own services in production with strong reliability practices. If you like distributed systems, clean APIs, and shipping features customers can see, this is the place.
About the role
About the team
The Consumer Media Experiences (CMX) Backend & SQE team, founded in 2023, is a focused team of backend and quality engineers building the systems that power Zillow's most immersive, AI-driven consumer experiences. We operate within the Zillow AI & Experiences and Rich Media organizations, leading innovation in high-impact media products across Zillow's business lines.
In this role, you will design and operate the backend services that deliver media data, AI-generated assets, and listing data for Zillow Showcase Listings - our premium listing product - as well as Interactive Floor Plan, Zillow's flagship AI-powered experience across web and mobile. You will work on distributed systems that ingest, transform, and serve rich media from a diverse and evolving set of sources, ensuring seamless delivery across Zillow's consumer surfaces.
This role directly contributes to building scalable, highly available, and reliable production systems using Go, TypeScript, Python, and Java - with quality, performance, and operational excellence as foundational expectations.
Responsibilities and Must-Have Skills:
- Design & Build Distributed Systems: Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend services and APIs. Strong proficiency in Go (preferred), TypeScript, Python, or Java, with the ability to ramp quickly on new technologies as needed.
- GraphQL Schema Ownership: Define, evolve, and maintain GraphQL schemas that power consumer-facing experiences across web and mobile platforms, ensuring consistency, performance, and clarity of data contracts.
- Data and Pipeline Engineering: Design and operate resilient data across asynchronous systems (e.g., Kafka or similar event streams), queues, and synchronous service APIs. Emphasize correctness, idempotency, fault tolerance, and throughput at scale.
- Product Ownership & Operational Excellence: Take full ownership of services in production, including on-call participation, proactive monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvements to reliability, latency, and scalability against defined service-level metrics.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, UX, and engineering teams across the stack. Align with upstream and downstream dependencies, define clear service contracts, and make thoughtful trade-offs that balance product velocity with long-term technical durability.
- Technical Communication & Documentation: Author high-quality design documents and technical proposals. Communicate decisions and status clearly to unblock teams and drive alignment. Conduct rigorous code reviews within and across teams to uphold best-in-class code quality, maintainability, and system integrity.
- Quality & Sustainability: Champion effective testing strategies, targeted automation, and pragmatic engineering standards that scale beyond a single initiative.
- Customer Impact Focus: Deliver backend capabilities that elevate media experiences - including photos, video, and immersive tours - and drive measurable improvements in customer engagement and product performance.
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AI-Augmented Engineering Practice: Actively leverage modern AI development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude, and similar assistants) to accelerate design, implementation, testing, and debugging. Continuously build fluency in AI-assisted workflows and apply them responsibly to improve engineering velocity, code quality, and learning speed across the team
This role has been categorized as a teleworker position. Teleworkers 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. Employees may live anywhere in Mexico, with availability to travel to Mexico City, as we recommend attendance at occasional office events.
In addition to a competitive base salary and benefits, this position is also eligible for bonuses depending on factors such as experience, performance and location.
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
Who You Are
- Experienced backend engineer. You have a BS/MS in Computer Science (or equivalent practical experience) and 5+ years building scalable backend services for consumer-facing products using Go, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, and/or Java.
- Cloud-native and distributed systems practitioner. You have hands-on experience with Kubernetes, event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar), Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), and AWS or comparable cloud platforms.
- Systems-minded and pragmatic. You design reliable distributed systems and make sound trade-offs between speed and long-term durability.
- Strong technical owner. You take responsibility from design through production operations, continuously improving reliability, performance, and quality.
- High engineering bar. You write clean, maintainable code, provide rigorous code reviews, and elevate team standards.
- Clear communicator. You document decisions well, align cross-functional partners, and explain complex ideas simply.
- AI-forward and curious. You leverage modern AI tools to accelerate development and continuously improve your craft.
- Customer-focused. You are motivated by building backend systems that power visible, high-impact consumer experiences.
Nice to have:
- Observability and operations: Instrument services with metrics, logs, and traces; set actionable alerts; maintain runbooks and improve reliability against clear targets over time.
- Cloud and platform engineering: Use major cloud providers, containers, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) to streamline delivery and keep production systems stable.
- Cross‑domain collaboration: Partner with upstream AI/ML teams to introduce new media types and ship richer, consumer‑facing experiences
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.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA With Employer Contribution
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Mental Health Benefits
Parental Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
- Adoption Leave
- Return-to-Work Program
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Opportunities
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
- Work-From-Home Stipend
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Snacks
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Sabbatical
- Volunteer Time Off
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Company Equity
- Stock Purchase Program
- Performance Bonus
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
Diversity and Inclusion
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