[Hiring] Principal Backend Software Development Engineer @Zillow

Role Description

As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you’ll lead the delivery and ongoing support of projects from end-to-end. In addition, you will:

• Contribute to the design of new features.
• Review the code of your peers.
• Advocate for standard methodologies.
• Facilitate engineering discussions.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Participate in an inclusive, energetic and highly multi-functional team.

This role has been categorized as a teleworker position. Teleworkers 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. Employees may live anywhere in Mexico, with availability to travel to Mexico City, as we recommend attendance at occasional office events.

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

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience with Java, Python, NodeJS, and Go for APIs and services.
• Experienced in a range of persistence strategies including relational and non-relational databases.
• Fluent in English and Spanish (both written and spoken).
• Must be authorized to work in Mexico.
• Highly skilled with multiple modern development technologies used to design, deliver, debug, and maintain front-end user interfaces and back-end software systems.
• Recognized as a technical leader on your team for several years and have an impact beyond your team.
• Passionate about setting standard methodologies and raising the bar for systems design, testing, code quality, and maintainability.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Benefits package.
• Equity awards based on experience, performance, and location.