About the team
The Senior Specialist, Software Engineering, Back End designs, builds, and operates scalable, reliable backend services and platforms that power Zillow’s consumer and partner experiences. This role leads complex server-side development, improves system performance and resiliency, and collaborates closely with product, data, and infrastructure teams to support millions of users and enable developer productivity across multiple brands.
About the role
- Design & Build Distributed Systems: Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend services and APIs. Strong proficiency in Go (preferred), TypeScript, Python, or Java, with the ability to ramp quickly on new technologies as needed.
- GraphQL Schema Ownership: Define, evolve, and maintain GraphQL schemas that power consumer-facing experiences across web and mobile platforms, ensuring consistency, performance, and clarity of data contracts.
- Data and Pipeline Engineering: Design and operate resilient data across asynchronous systems (e.g., Kafka or similar event streams), queues, and synchronous service APIs.



Emphasize correctness, idempotency, fault tolerance, and throughput at scale.
- Product Ownership & Operational Excellence: Take full ownership of services in production, including on-call participation, proactive monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvements to reliability, latency, and scalability against defined service-level metrics.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, UX, and engineering teams across the stack. Align with upstream and downstream dependencies, define clear service contracts, and make thoughtful trade-offs that balance product velocity with long-term technical durability.
- Technical Communication & Documentation: Author high-quality design documents and technical proposals. Communicate decisions and status clearly to unblock teams and drive alignment. Conduct rigorous code reviews within and across teams to uphold best-in-class cod

📌 Software Development Engineer, Backend (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Zillow
📍 Ciudad de México