Head of Developer Productivity

Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.

Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.

We are seeking a Head of Developer Productivity to lead and evolve the core technology foundation of Realtor.com . This role is dynamic, forward-looking, and growth-oriented, overseeing two key teams - Developer Experience (DevEx) and Service Infrastructure - while building the infrastructure team of the future. You will have the freedom and resources to strategically grow, restructure, and optimize your organization to meet the demands of tomorrow.

As an action-oriented leader with a bias for innovation, you'll push boundaries, question inefficiencies, and find ways to increase our productivity and effectiveness. You'll foster a culture of agility and pragmatism, driven by a commitment to making decisions rooted in data. Realtor.com 's engineering practice will not only be scalable and secure with you at the helm, but will also be a competitive advantage as it's guided by insights and metrics you set out that will inform our next steps.

This is a hybrid role based in Austin where you will be required in the office three days a week.

What you'll do

• Build and Evolve: Lead the current DevEx and Microservices teams while shaping a vision for future growth. Strategically plan team expansion and organizational design, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals.
• Transform Developer Experience: Drive initiatives that enhance developer productivity, leveraging off-the-shelf platforms such as Backstage, Kubernetes, and various rapidly-growing gen AI development tools while looking to create competitive advantage with custom tooling. Redefine what great developer experience looks like.
• Own Microservices and Application Architecture: Oversee the team responsible for critical components of the application infrastructure, including GraphQL, Kasada, Tyk, HAProxy, Istio, and more. Ensure seamless integration, scalability, and reliability across these systems to support engineering teams and deliver exceptional user experiences.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Establish a culture of data-informed decision making across your teams. Use metrics and analytics to evaluate infrastructure performance, developer productivity, system health, and quality assurance outcomes, ensuring initiatives deliver measurable impact.
• Champion Action and Innovation: Navigate and influence a matrixed environment, pushing back on unnecessary processes while fostering efficiency and agility. Ensure progress isn't hindered by bureaucracy, driving results and simplifying complexity.
• Collaborate with NewsCorp: Represent Realtor.com in strategic discussions with our parent company, NewsCorp, driving alignment on broader infrastructure and cybersecurity initiatives while advocating for Realtor.com 's goals and priorities.
• Long-Term Visionary Leadership: Balance immediate priorities with future-forward planning. Develop strategies to ensure Realtor.com 's infrastructure is positioned to scale with business growth and evolving technology trends.

What you'll bring:

• Proven Leadership: Significant experience leading development platform teams at scale, with expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, microservices, and developer tooling. A track record of building and scaling high-performing teams.
• Bold Innovator: A visionary who understands emerging technologies and their transformative potential, especially in generative AI, machine learning, and developer experience.
• Bias Toward Action: A results-driven leader who is not afraid to question the status quo, eliminate blockers, and drive initiatives forward in complex, matrixed environments.
• Data-Driven Mindset: An analytical leader who values data as a foundation for decision-making. You leverage metrics, insights, and feedback loops to optimize performance, and guide strategy.
• Strategic Architect: A long-term planner who can think several steps ahead, anticipate challenges, and align teams and resources to achieve ambitious goals.
• Collaborative Partner: Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams, organizations, and external stakeholders.
• Empathy for Developers and Users: A deep understanding of developers' and end users' needs, with a commitment to removing friction and creating seamless experiences.

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you'll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you'll find your way home too. People are our foundation-the core that drives us passionately forward. At Realtor.com®, you'll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return we'll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.