Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Realtor.com Careers
Austin, TX
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Jul 19, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role building and maintaining full-stack features across high-traffic consumer products at a major real estate platform. The engineer would work end-to-end — from Node.js microservices and GraphQL APIs to React frontends and AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure — on one of several domain teams covering new home construction listings, mortgage and financial tools, or rental marketplace products. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable owning production reliability, test automation, and cross-functional delivery independently.
Senior level · 5+ years · Austin, TX · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 250 people in the Austin, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 190–330
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 (9)
The job posting does not specify a single office location — Realtor.com has offices in multiple US cities (including Austin TX, Scottsdale AZ, and others). The CBSA field is left as a best-guess placeholder; the actual work location is unconfirmed from the posting text.
The role requires 3+ days/week in-office, so it is not fully remote.
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science is listed as a requirement but is immediately qualified with 'or equivalent practical experience', so the degree requirement is set to None.
AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Windsurf, Portkey, Gemini) appear in the 'What You'll Bring' requirements section and are treated as a hard gate on demonstrated hands-on experience with such tooling.
Event-driven architecture familiarity (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS) and data pipeline tools (Snowflake, S3, Aurora) are listed under 'Data Architecture' in the requirements section but framed with 'Familiarity with' — treated as preferred rather than a hard gate.
Federated GraphQL architecture is listed under 'Advanced API Design' with 'Familiarity with' language, so it is treated as preferred.
Domain background in search, marketplace, listing-based, or financial services products is called out as a requirement but names no specific technology or tool, so it is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
Containerization is mentioned alongside Kubernetes; Docker is the canonical tool and is captured as preferred since it appears as supporting context rather than a separately gated requirement.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AI-assisted development tools.
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