Senior Software Engineer

News Corp is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join Realtor.com’s Owners and Sellers team in Austin, TX. In this role, you will take ownership of mission-critical platforms and drive initiatives that improve both consumer experience and business outcomes, using modern full-stack and cloud capabilities to scale performance and reliability.

Working in a team that partners across Product, Design, and Engineering, you will help shape technical direction, deliver end-to-end solutions, and strengthen engineering execution through architectural rigor, operational excellence, and thoughtful use of AI-assisted development.

What you will do

• Own key parts of the Owners and Sellers platform by defining service boundaries, contracts, and data models between systems.
• Participate in and lead architecture conversations, contributing to technical design documents and implementation proposals.
• Collaborate across squads with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers from early discovery and technical design through implementation, rollout, and post-launch iteration.
• Improve stability, readability, and scalability across backend services and frontend architecture, including React and Next.js best practices.
• Drive performance gains and optimize Core Web Vitals, including INP metrics, across pages.
• Support operational excellence by ensuring services meet SLAs, influencing incident response, and working to reduce incident volume and MTTR.
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and Designers to sequence work that supports business goals and platform health.
• Use AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development, generate boilerplate, and troubleshoot complex debugging scenarios, while applying critical judgment to validate security and accuracy.
• Provide technical leadership through coaching junior to Staff engineers and reviewing PRs for high-risk changes, while aligning teams on shared patterns.

What you bring

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong full-stack experience, with extensive frontend development focused on TypeScript, React, and Apollo GraphQL, plus backend proficiency with Node.js and GraphQL.
• Proven experience using modern AI-assisted SDLC environments and agents (for example, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and the ability to drive AI adoption at scale.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native services on AWS, including EKS, container technologies like Docker, and managed databases, along with CI/CD orchestration such as CircleCI, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes.
• Solid foundation in system design, data modeling, API design, responsive design principles, and CSS technologies like PandaCSS and CSS3.
• Comfort working with observability tooling (metrics, logs, traces) such as NewRelic and Splunk, using data to debug, optimize, and harden production systems.
• Ability to set technical direction, align multiple teams without formal authority, and explain complex trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/related field or equivalent professional experience.

Technologies

• TypeScript, React, Node.js, NextJS, GraphQL, Apollo GraphQL
• AWS, Lambda, ECS, CloudFormation, EKS
• CircleCI, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Docker
• AI tools, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, LLMs
• NewRelic, Splunk, Core Web Vitals, INP metrics, PandaCSS, CSS3
• Cloud-native services

Benefits

• Inclusive and competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage.
• 13 paid holidays and flexible time off.
• Immediate eligibility into the Company 401(k) plan with a 3.5% company match.
• Family forming benefits and Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program.
• Tuition reimbursement and 1:1 personalized financial planning sessions.
• 8 hours of paid volunteer time off.
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location.

Location: Austin, TX, United States (onsite)

Category: Technology

Job ID: 3324

How we work

• Employees work three days in the Austin headquarters to collaborate in person.

Top reasons to apply

• Hands-on cloud and DevOps ownership: Design AWS data pipelines and automate the toolchain using Lambda, ECS, and CloudFormation to enable instant service provisioning and zero-friction deployments.
• AI-driven engineering culture: Use AI tools as a performance multiplier, writing better code faster in a forward-thinking environment.
• Full-stack scale and impact: Own end-to-end architecture for a top builder listing site in the US, bridging AWS data pipelines with high-velocity, SEO-optimized React/Next.js frontends handling massive traffic.