Software Development Engineer, Ad Technology & Operations - Remote Eligible

About The Role

As a Software Development Engineer (P3) at Zillow, you are a key contributor to your team's success. You independently deliver non-trivial features and improvements, design solutions to well-scoped problems, and help teammates, especially more junior engineers, succeed. You are respected for the quality of your work and your thoughtful participation in team discussions. This role is about mastering your craft, deepening your technical impact, and building the foundation for future growth.

Responsibilities include:

• Design, build, and maintain high-quality, well-tested software that solves real customer and business problems.
• Independently deliver clearly scoped features and enhancements with reliable quality and on-time execution.
• Operate services in production, resolving complex issues with minimal guidance and helping shape on-call practices, dashboards, metrics, and runbooks.
• Contribute to system and feature architecture discussions, identifying trade-offs and documenting design decisions.
• Communicate effectively with teammates, product partners, and stakeholders—through design docs, code reviews, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Participate actively in agile team ceremonies, planning, and retrospectives.
• Identify opportunities for technical improvements (efficiency, reliability, customer experience) within your team's scope and bring them forward.

Who You Are

Required qualifications include:

• 3+ years proven experience in designing, coding, and debugging web applications and backend services.
• Experience with frontend development in one or more programming languages: (React, Node, NextJS, GraphQL)
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience with backend development languages: (Java, Python, Node)
• Experience with GitLab, Azure DevOps or a similar source control system.
• Ability to multi-task effectively and easily adapt within a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to learn and integrate new technologies as needed.
• Effectively communicate with others on the team including peer code reviews.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and organizational skills.
• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or have applicable experience.
• Passionate about development and emerging technologies.

Pluses:

• Experience working with ad serving technologies like Google Ad Manager.
• Experience with data engineering and related technologies (Hive, Presto, SQL Server, Redshift, Python, Mode Analytics, Tableau, Redis).
• Experience with AWS stacks as well as container orchestration, i.e. Kubernetes.
• Experience with GraphQL APIs.
• Experience in building products in the cloud.
• Experience with AI Tooling such as Cursor, ChatGPT, Replit, etc.
• Experience with environmental tools such as Storybook.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling.

Get To Know Us

Zillow is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people. As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help make it easier to move. The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.

Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to equity and belonging.