Dir, Software Engineering

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

About the Role

Realtor.com is looking for a Director of Engineering, for the Consumer experience to be responsible for building and operating critical product experiences, platforms and services. This leader will oversee managers and senior technical leaders across multiple domains that support core revenue for the business.

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can operate at both the organizational and technical levels. You will shape strategy, develop leaders, raise the engineering bar, and guide modernization efforts across web, mobile, and service boundaries. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and peer engineering organizations to deliver customer value while improving speed, quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Top Reasons to Apply

Lead a broad, high-impact consumer engineering portfolio that directly shapes experiences used by millions of consumers.

Influence both business outcomes and technical direction across revenue-critical products, shared platforms, and modernization efforts.

Tackle meaningful technical challenges across web, native, backend, and platform systems in an environment where strategy and execution are tightly connected.

AI-forward culture: The org is actively building and deploying AI-powered tooling and consumer experiences with 100% AI adoption as a company goal

Join a role with real visibility, strong cross-functional partnership, and the opportunity to leave a lasting organizational footprint.

Senior team: You’ll work alongside Staff and Sr. Staff engineers who are already deep domain experts

What You’ll Do

Consumer Strategy Execution

Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, and business stakeholders to shape roadmaps that improve consumer experience and business performance

Translate company and org strategy into engineering plans, staffing priorities, delivery milestones, and measurable outcomes

Drive execution across a portfolio of initiatives with varying levels of ambiguity, dependency complexity, and organizational visibility

Technical Strategy and Execution

Set technical direction across a diverse portfolio of consumer applications, platforms, and services

Guide architectural decisions spanning web, native, backend, and platform boundaries

Lead modernization efforts that improve scalability, consistency, observability, security, and developer productivity

Raise the quality bar for engineering design, code health, testing strategy, CI/CD, reliability, and operational excellence using AI from the get go

AI and Engineering Effectiveness

Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices that improve planning, coding, testing, documentation, and operational workflows

Help the organization evolve toward systems and practices that are easier for both humans and AI tools to understand, operate, and extend

Build an engineering organization that can scale quality and delivery without scaling complexity at the same rate

People Organization

Lead an engineering organization through managers and senior leaders, creating clarity in structure, ownership, and accountability

Coach, develop, and support leaders through regular feedback, performance management, succession planning, and career growth

Create an inclusive, high-accountability culture where engineers and leaders can do strong work, grow their impact, and operate with trust

Hire and retain strong engineering talent while maintaining a high bar for leadership, technical judgment, and collaboration

What We’re Looking For

Required

10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years leading engineering teams, including managing managers

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Strong technical foundation in modern web development and architecture (TypeScript, React, GraphQL, AWS).

Comfortable operating across levels: from strategy to critical technical and delivery decisions.

Strong instinct for connecting engineering execution to business metrics: you think in terms of conversion, retention, and revenue impact, not just shipping features.

Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management able to influence without authority, represent platform value to product and business…