# Software Development Engineer, Backend (Go/Python)

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

- **Id**: 1213680
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zillow-software-development-engineer-backend-gopython>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mexico City, Mexico
- **Countries**: MX
- **Hiring countries**: MX
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T22:10:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 52
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7277
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Property Management, PropTech, Real Estate Brokerage, Mortgage Lending & Brokers

## Company

- **Id**: 7010
- **Name**: Zillow
- **Domain**: zillow.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zillow>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 92
- **Open postings**: 50
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.28
- **Repost share**: 0.04
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 22
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 51000
- **Max usd**: 113000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 9

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 52

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Mexico** — Iso: MX; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T06:14:10Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 20
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.73
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 52
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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