Sr Backend Software Engineer, Content & Industry Services at Realtor.com Careers
Austin, TX
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Jun 29, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior full-stack engineering role on the team responsible for ingesting, processing, and publishing real estate listing data from thousands of sources to power the platform's search and recommendations. Day-to-day work spans building backend data pipelines and distributed systems on AWS, maintaining frontend features, applying AI and automation to improve data quality, and mentoring other engineers. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable across the stack with five or more years working on data-intensive web systems.
Senior level · 5+ years · Austin, TX · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 340 people in the Austin, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 260–440
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,069 (middle half $106,287–$172,440).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The job posting does not specify a work location city beyond indicating an in-office hybrid model (3+ days/week); Realtor.com's primary engineering offices are in Austin, TX and Scottsdale, AZ — the CBSA is a best guess and should be verified.
The JD lists Python, Go, JavaScript, and ReactJS together as examples of proficiency in 'multiple programming languages and frameworks' — they are presented as a group of interchangeable options rather than all being independently required. They are captured as separate skills reflecting the full-stack requirement, but a candidate strong in any subset of these languages would likely qualify.
A Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering is listed as a hard requirement in the 'What You'll Bring' section; a Master's degree is explicitly called 'a plus' and is therefore not marked required.
CircleCI is named as one example within a broader list of cloud/platform tools; it is listed under the requirements section alongside Kafka, Kubernetes, etc., so it is treated as a hard gate with common CI/CD alternatives noted.
MySQL and PostgreSQL are both listed together in the requirements section; either likely satisfies the relational database requirement, so they are captured as alternatives of each other.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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