Staff Software Engineer
Realtor.com Careers8 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy and engineering standards for crawl budget, indexation, canonicalization, robots, sitemaps, rendering, and SEO regression testing at scale.
- Define the technical strategy and reliability standards for listing-share links, AppsFlyer deep-link generation, attribution, and in-app versus web fallback.
- Lead SEO and deep-linking incident response, war rooms, escalations, post-mortems, alerts, gates, and runbooks.
- Define SLOs, SLIs, observability, and on-call models for crawl/indexation and deep-link resolution/attribution health.
- Coordinate with product partners and partner engineering teams to drive fixes across edge, delivery, routing, rendering, content, and attribution systems.
- Own log-file, crawl-budget, crawler-behavior, index-drift, deep-link-performance, resolution-failure, and attribution-loss analysis.
- Lead design reviews, mentor engineers through technical work, and raise engineering standards without a reporting line.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, plus 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience owning technical SEO or crawl/rendering infrastructure, including crawl budget, indexation, structured data, rendering, or site migrations at scale.
- Experience with federated GraphQL, API gateway architectures, CDN, WAF, and bot-management layers.
- Familiarity with search engine indexing APIs and dynamic-rendering or prerender approaches.
- Direct experience with AppsFlyer or Branch/Adjust SDK integration, OneLink or deferred deep linking, and attribution reconciliation.
- Experience defining SLOs and real-time alerting for customer-facing platforms.
- Strong backend engineering proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript with Node.js, plus production-service ownership.
- Hands-on experience with React and Next.js and SSR, SSG, ISR, CSR, hydration, and crawler-rendering issues.
- SQL and cloud data warehouse skills for log-file, crawl-budget, and deep-link-performance analysis.
- Experience building regression gates and automated quality checks in a delivery pipeline.
- Demonstrated cross-team technical leadership, influence without positional authority, and incident-command ability.
- Fluency with AI coding assistants on production code and ability to evaluate their output.
- Preferred experience standing up or re-platforming an SEO engineering function and expertise in mobile measurement partners, deep-link generation, resolution, and attribution debugging.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in the Austin, Texas office, with employees working three or more days per week in the office and residing within commuting distance.
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage.
- Family-forming benefits.
- 13 paid holidays, flexible time off, and 8 hours of paid volunteer time off.
- Immediate eligibility for the company 401(k) plan with a 3.5% company match.
- Tuition reimbursement for degree and non-degree programs.
- Personalized financial planning sessions and a student debt retirement savings match program.
- Free snacks and refreshments in each office.
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About Realtor.com Careers
Realtor.com builds a consumer real estate marketplace with nationwide for-sale and rental listings, tools, and guidance for buyers, sellers, and renters. Its business centers on advertising, lead generation, and software for real estate professionals connecting with consumers. Founded in 1996, the site is operated by Move, Inc., a News Corp subsidiary, under a perpetual license from the National Association of REALTORS, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.