Senior Manager, Software Engineering

- Pearl focuses on leading the pre-connection experience, ensuring that customers are effectively connected to Zillow professionals through initiatives like lead routing and cross-sell workflows.

Together, these platforms enhance Zillow's ability to manage leads, facilitate communication, and ensure seamless customer connections. Our mission is to provide platforms that enable these connections dependably, ensuring a smooth and personalized experience for our users. We focus on platform solutions that integrate backend operations, scale to handle increased traffic, and enable client teams to solve their problems directly through their development teams. Our team is committed to enhancing reliability, observability, and security while fostering innovation and efficiency.

About the role

As a Senior Engineering Manager of the Guardians team within the Centralized Lead Platform, you will play a critical role in delivering business value by solving sophisticated problems that span multiple teams and organizations. You will partner with fellow leaders to identify and align on problems, bringing to bear your deep expertise to build sophisticated solutions. Your impact will be felt across the company as you shape technical strategies, influence architectural decisions, and mentor other engineers. You will be responsible for building systems that are flexible, maintainable, secure, and testable, ensuring they can scale and adapt to the evolving needs of the business.

As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering Connections Platform, you will:

• Lead the design and implementation of sophisticated systems that span multiple teams and organizations.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with product managers, principal engineers, and other stakeholders to align on technical strategies and solutions.
• Ensure the systems you build are secure, reliable, efficient, and maintainable.
• Communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences, tailoring your message to the needs of each group.
• Drive operational excellence, proactively identifying and resolving issues to maintain system health and performance.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. "Remote" employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $201,700.00 - $322,300.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Who you are

• Proven experience delivering high-quality production code working with a team.
• Hold a BS in Computer Science or related field; OR 12 years relevant non-internship experience.
• Proven experience in back-end (Golang, C#, Java, AWS Infra) technologies. Front-end technologies (React, AngularJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) is a plus.
• Experience building or leading platforms is required for this role. History of building solutions centered around Lead Ingestion is a plus.
• Own the quality of your team's feature work through test automation and monitoring.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to make high-judgment decisions in sophisticated and ambiguous situations.
• Have been recognized as a technical leader on your team and have a sizable impact beyond your team.
• Passionate about setting standard methodologies and raising the bar for testing, code quality, and maintainability - not only for the team but for the entire engineering organization.
• Have a growth mentality and a desire to grow and improve your skills while inspiring others.

Get to know us

Zillow is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.

As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help make it easier to move. The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.

Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages as well as parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. We're also setting the standard for work experiences of the future, where our employees are supported in doing their best work and living a flexible, well-balanced life. But don't just take our word for it. Read recent reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index, and TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.

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