Principal Software Development Engineer, Rich Media

Zillow is reimagining how people move through the real estate market. As a Principal Software Development Engineer within Rich Media’s Home Capture team, you will oversee larger-scoped projects and lead technical solutions that span multiple teams, while also contributing to coding efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Foresee technical problems that the teams are not yet facing and propose corrective actions
• Innovate new solutions that balance implementation time, quality, observability, scalability, and maintainability
• Strategize future solutions that enable Rich Media solutions to efficiently scale
• Lead technical service solutions spanning multiple teams
• Mentor engineers within and outside the team
• Oversee key performance indicators and ensure proper visibility

Requirements:

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience
• Proactively collaborates across teams to communicate strategy and decisions
• Communication at technical, product strategy, and leadership levels
• Experience in creating technical software architecture designs
• Experience balancing delivering quality code with delivering experiences on a deadline
• Mentors senior engineers to develop independent technical leadership
• Defines and evolves platform-wide architectural standards, paved-road libraries, and testing/monitoring practices to ensure scalability and maintainability
• Always seeking opportunities to identify and improve inefficiencies in existing systems
• Experience with cloud services (AWS Preferred)
• Champion quality and stability of services
• Knowledgeable of the software development lifecycle including code reviews testing, and operations
• Excels at driving large features from design to implementation
• Experience working closely with other platform engineers in mobile, web, ML, CV
• Experience with photography, imaging, computer graphics
• Experience in Go (formerly Golang)
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with Kafka or other data streaming pipelines