Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer
Realtor.com Careers · Austin, TX
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Jul 17, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role focused on the architecture and full-stack delivery of two consumer-facing products: a premium listing merchandising surface and an agent discovery directory. Day-to-day work spans React/Next.js frontends, Node.js backend services, and GraphQL/REST APIs, with significant responsibility for setting technical standards, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across product, design, and partner engineering teams.
Staff level · 8+ years · Austin, TX · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 110 people in the Austin, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 85–150
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 city or office location by name. Realtor.com® has offices in Austin TX, Scottsdale AZ, and other locations; the CBSA is left as a best-guess placeholder — verify the actual office this team sits in.
The role requires 3+ days per week in-office, so it is not fully remote.
Bachelor's degree is listed as 'Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience,' so no hard degree gate is set.
Next.js appears in the 'What You'll Do' narrative describing the team's stack rather than in a firm requirements gate, so it is marked preferred.
CI/CD and observability are called out under 'Operational Excellence' as things the candidate should 'understand,' framed as context rather than a hard gate, so they are marked preferred.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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