Sr Mgr, Software Engineering

• Revenue Acceleration: Scale one of Realtor.com’s fastest-growing business units.
• Architectural Ownership & Green-Field Innovation: Drive a technical evolution by leading a full frontend replatform, GraphQL architecture rollout, and a mobile app launch.
• High-Impact Leadership: Lead and mentor a high-executing team while partnering directly with product leadership to shape business strategy.

What You’ll Do:

Translate Strategy into Execution

• Convert product strategy into clear, actionable technology strategy and plans for your team
• Define priorities, scope, and sequencing to ensure focus on the highest-impact work
• Establish measurable goals and ensure alignment between day-to-day execution and long-term objectives
• Continuously adjust plans based on business needs, risks, and new information
• Drive improvements in reliability, performance, and operational excellence
• Own the operational health of systems and services, including reliability, performance, and incident response

Drive Accountability and Results

• Own outcomes for your team, ensuring commitments are met with high quality and predictability
• Establish clear ownership, roles, and decision-making structures within the team
• Implement mechanisms to track progress, surface risks early, and drive timely resolution
• Maintain a high bar for execution, balancing urgency with long-term sustainability
• Engage in key technical decisions, ensuring solutions align with business and system needs
• Partner with senior engineers to drive scalable, maintainable system design

Drive Cross-Functional Alignment

• Partner closely with product, design, and peer engineering teams to deliver shared outcomes
• Ensure strong engineering practices across design, testing, and operations
• Navigate dependencies and resolve conflicts to keep initiatives moving forward
• Facilitate healthy debate while ensuring decisions are made and executed
• Align roadmaps and execution plans across teams and organizations

Provide Clear Stakeholder Visibility

• Create consistent, transparent reporting on progress, risks, and outcomes
• Proactively communicate updates to leadership and cross-functional partners
• Synthesize complex technical and delivery information into clear, actionable insights
• Ensure stakeholders understand tradeoffs, timelines, and impacts of decisions
• Build trust through reliability, clarity, and follow-through

Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team

• Manage and grow a team of engineers across multiple levels
• Set clear expectations and provide regular, actionable feedback
• Identify and address performance gaps at both the team and individual level
• Coach and develop engineers and emerging leaders to increase their impact
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Ensure team success is durable and not dependent on individual contributors
• Exercise sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential, sensitive, or
• ambiguous situations
• Maintain a high standard of professionalism in all interactions, especially under pressure or in high-visibility contexts

• Minimum 5 years of experience in leading software engineering teams in a technology company, 8+ years related experience
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science/ Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• A strong results and outcome-driven focus, understanding the value derived from rapidly shipping code and learning/iterating on the results
• Strong ability to coach and mentor engineers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers
• Strong expertise in modern web architectures (e.g., React), backend development (e.g., Python), relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS).
• Hands-on experience with high-level design and familiarity with best practices and design patterns
• Strong empathy for our customers and a passion for exceeding their expectations, always!
• A passion for learning, continuous improvement, sharing, and working in a team environment

Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com® Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.