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Austin, Texas, United States
Hybrid
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.
At Realtor.com®, we're on a mission to make buying, selling, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone. With over 70 million monthly users, we provide trusted data, tools, and guidance to help people make life's biggest decisions. Our team is passionate about simplifying the real estate journey, and we're just getting started.
Organic search and organic social are two of the most important ways consumers find realtor.com. Behind organic search sits a platform of crawl, indexation, sitemap, structured-data, and rendering systems; behind organic social sits the share experience and the deeplinking and attribution layer (AppsFlyer) that determines whether a shared listing actually lands the recipient on the right page, in-app or on web. Together these span the layers that shape what search engines, social platforms, and end users see across millions of pages and shares.
We're building a dedicated Organic Growth Engineering team — a platform team that owns the systems, tooling, and reliability behind organic search and organic social. As our Technical SEO & Social Lead, you'll be the engineer who understands the whole ecosystem: from structured data on a listing page, to the delivery-layer configuration that governs crawler access, to the deeplink resolution that fires when a listing gets shared — and who can drive fixes across the teams that own those systems. You'll set the technical direction for the team, serve as the voice of Organic Growth inside Engineering — advocating for SEO and social-sharing best practices as the technical SME for the channel — and lead the response when organic search or organic social performance is at risk. You'll also be the primary technical counterpart to our Organic Growth product partners, including the VP, Organic Growth (SEO/AEO), turning their strategy into platform changes and giving them a clear, data-backed answer on SEO- and sharing-critical proposals.
Your north star: The goal is clear and the bar is high: become the #1 non-brand destination in organic search and answer engines while building the ultimate property listing sharing experience for real estate.
On scope: Several systems that affect SEO and social sharing are owned by partner teams, so a lot of this job is understanding how they connect and driving the right owners to the fix. Comfort with ambiguity and strong cross-team influence matter as much here as depth in any one codebase.
Note for candidates: This is a senior engineering role, not a marketing SEO position. You will write code, own the organic platform infrastructure — spanning SEO, organic social, and listing-share deeplinking — and set technical direction for how realtor.com is crawled, rendered, indexed, and shared at scale. It reports into Engineering.
It is also an individual-contributor tech lead role, not a management role; you'll partner with an Engineering Manager who owns people and delivery, while you own the technical direction and the hardest technical problems.
What You'll do:
You're the technical lead for the team that collectively owns the SEO and organic social platform, you're not expected to personally build all of it. You set the technical strategy, go deep on the hardest cross-cutting problems, and make the team successful.
You'll partner closely with the Organic Growth product team, who owns the product roadmap, KPIs, and business accountability for both the SEO/AEO and organic social channels. They set the "what and why"; you set the "how" on the platform underneath it.
What You'll Bring:
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How we work:
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. Our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together. This role is hybrid and based in our Austin, TX office; you'll need to be within commutable distance.
How we Reward you:
Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:
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. 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.
