Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

What you’ll get from Realtor.com and News Corp

Join the News & Insights team building the high-traffic news experience behind Realtor.com. This role blends backend depth with modern frontend development, with a focus on performance, reliability, and support for AI-powered Hyperlocal content. You’ll also have access to benefits designed for health, family planning, and long-term stability.

• 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
• Company 401(k): immediate eligibility with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement 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

What you’ll do

You’ll build and evolve consumer-facing experiences across both the frontend and backend, working on features that span React/Next.js and server-side systems. The work is backend-heavy, including designing APIs and data flows, improving caching and delivery, and contributing to logging and production reliability.

• Build and expand consumer-facing features across frontend and backend
• Contribute to React and Next.js feature development, especially when product work spans both sides
• Own full-stack work from technical design through testing, release, and production support
• Design, build, and scale backend services and APIs supporting the News & Insights platform
• Develop and maintain Node.js and TypeScript services, including GraphQL schemas, persisted queries, and RESTful APIs
• Own server-side data flows and make decisions around service boundaries, performance, and maintainability
• Improve caching and delivery strategies, including CDN or edge caching, object caching, and incremental rendering
• Contribute to logging, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and overall production reliability
• Support automated testing, CI/CD, and safe, repeatable releases in partnership with platform and infrastructure teams
• Support backend services, integrations, and data flows for the AI-powered Hyperlocal content platform
• Collaborate with Product, editorial stakeholders, and engineering partners to shape technical priorities
• Communicate technical trade-offs, contribute to design discussions, participate in code reviews, Agile ceremonies, and roadmap planning

What you bring

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend foundation and meaningful frontend experience
• Experience owning full-stack features or product areas from design through production
• Strong JavaScript or TypeScript experience; Node.js is strongly preferred
• Frontend experience with React or Next.js (or comparable modern frameworks)
• Experience designing and operating RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, or comparable service interfaces
• Experience with automated testing, production troubleshooting, and reliability-focused engineering decisions
• Familiarity with cloud deployment and CI/CD, including AWS or comparable platform practices
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)

Tech you’ll work with

Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, React, Next.js, REST APIs, CDN, edge caching, object caching, incremental rendering, AWS, CI/CD, GraphQL schemas, persisted queries, Docker/containerized deployments, logging, monitoring, alerting

About WordPress

Direct WordPress experience is not required. The priority is the ability to work effectively across frontend and backend systems while contributing to a high-traffic consumer platform.