Senior Applications Engineer

$156,300 - $249,700/Yr

Zillow

Full-time - Senior

Onsite

Real Estate

About the position

The Senior Applications Engineer will play a crucial role in Zillow Group's Enterprise Application Engineering team, focusing on designing and building scalable solutions that enhance internal customer experiences. This position involves architecting and implementing employee-centric technical solutions, influencing the enterprise technology roadmap, and ensuring system performance and reliability. The role requires collaboration with various teams to deliver innovative solutions and maintain operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Author effective architectures and deliver critical code for employee-centric technical solutions.
• Influence and shape the enterprise technology roadmap and design standards.
• Cultivate a network of third-party tools into a unified, scalable platform.
• Enhance system performance and reliability, diagnosing and resolving operational events.
• Collaborate with system analysts and engineering teams to build and test solutions.
• Ensure rigorous testing of the team's work using automated patterns.
• Operate within an Agile/Scrum framework to deliver value across services.
• Participate in a team on-call rotation to troubleshoot critical issues.
• Own the enterprise technology roadmap and adjust architectural strategies.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing, developing, and integrating SaaS applications across Enterprise technology infrastructure.
• Familiarity with enterprise systems like Workday, ServiceNow, Active Directory, and Gen AI agents.
• Deep knowledge of SQL, REST/SOAP, Graph API, Workday Studio, Workday Orchestration, and Mulesoft.
• Experience in one or more programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, Python) with a willingness to learn additional tools.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable applications, preferably in AWS.
• Strong ownership and effective communication skills with technical and non-technical staff.
• Experience across the software development lifecycle, including coding standards and code reviews.
• Proactive in identifying initiatives to enhance system performance and efficiency.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with cloud technologies and services beyond AWS.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and practices.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Parental leave and family benefits.
• Retirement contributions.
• Paid time off and flexible work arrangements.