Software Development Manager - Big Data
The Property Data Platform team is responsible for ensuring our most critical data is available around the clock. This includes all listings of whats on the market, all public records information, personalization data, and market derivatives data (such as regional housing statistics and Zestimate).
The "Rosie" team is building a framework to consolidate data from multiple sources and deliver a single unified document to applications throughout the Zillow Group enterprise. Our platform is built on top of open source data streaming software such as Flink and Kafka. Given our critical role in the end-user experience, we care deeply about the performance, resiliency, scalability, and adaptability of our services.
About the role
In this role, you will lead a small team of highly skilled engineers supporting, and primarily focused on, key pieces of our internal Data Platform. You'll be collaborating with your peers across Zillow's Property Data Platform, as well as other engineering teams from various organizations within ZG, who are looking to make their data widely available and easily accessible around the company. We're looking for a strong technical leader who values mentoring their team and is eager to solve large scale data challenges.
You Will Get To:
Collaborate with tech leads in crafting and implementing your technical vision for the team and further refine and increase the impact of your team to key business metrics.
Own the success of your teams feature work and champion operational and engineering excellence with a dedication to performant, reliable, and easy to maintain services.
Empower your team with knowledge, an inclusive environment, and opportunities to grow in their careers.
Research and pioneer the adoption of new technologies and processes within Zillow.
Foster collaboration, visibility, and trust across team boundaries, recognizing that as a company we are better together.
Be involved at all stages of service development from drafting up the MVP designs on a whiteboard over to shipping incremental features and bug fixes with already matured production services.
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. Employees may live in any of the 50 US States, with limited exceptions. In certain cases, an employee in a remote-designated job may need to live in a specific region or time zone to support customers or clients as part of their role.
In Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada and New York City the standard base pay range for this role is $157,900.00 - $252,200.00 Annually. This base pay range is specific to Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada and New York City 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
Demonstrate deep understanding of software design patterns and best development practices.
Passionate about software quality, delivery excellence, and iterative development practicing agile software development methodologies.
Exhibit strong engineering judgment, enabled by breadth and depth of experiences building and scaling resilient Back End services.
Proven record of creating a team environment that cultivates collaboration, encourages energized work, and delivers high quality results consistently on time, every time.
Able to lead and drive confident trade-off discussions about business and engineering prioritizes.
Exhibit excellent cross-team collaboration and communication skills.
Committed to motivating, mentoring, and growing the potential of others.
Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
At least 5 years of Full time experience and high proficiency software development in Java, python or similar programming languages.
At least 1+ years of experience in a people management or similar technical leadership role.
Experience with AWS and GraphQL is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Apache Flink
Experience with Kafka