Manager, Software Development Engineering

About the role

The Media Solutions Technology team at Zillow builds advertising products and experiences that connect advertisers with millions of customers across Zillow websites. As a Software Development Manager based in Bengaluru, you will oversee the technical aspects of advertising products, lead and coach an engineering team, own the full development lifecycle, and champion platform uptime and operational excellence. This is an office-based role requiring regular work at the Zillow India office approximately 80 to 100 percent of the time.

What you’ll do

• Lead, coach, and empower a team of engineering and platforms professionals to reach their goals and achieve their potential
• Be ultimately responsible for the development lifecycle, including code quality and security, testing, and deployment
• Inspire with technical vision and build alignment with management and colleagues to fulfill it
• Help refine how the team and group can work together more optimally through Agile processes such as retrospective meetings
• Work with the team Principal Engineer to design solutions optimized for speed, reliability, and scale
• Continuously network with technical leaders throughout the organization to capitalize on available technical investments and expertise
• Champion platform uptime and operational excellence
• Identify and introduce new technologies that extend platform offerings, power more sophisticated functionalities, and/or improve overall performance

What you’ll bring

• At least 5 years of coding experience across a full stack with high proficiency in designing, coding, and debugging web applications in frameworks and languages such as Java, Node, React, Redux, Graph
• At least 2 years as a tech lead or manager with a proven approach toward mentoring and growing others
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field
• Deep understanding of system design, application architecture, and design patterns
• Experience troubleshooting and diagnosing issues in production and during the development cycle
• Competency in HTTP-based systems, including diagnosing HTTP traffic and response codes
• Experience communicating technological concepts and requirements to non-technical partners
• Experience working with ad serving technologies like Google Ad Manager strongly preferred

Nice to have

• Data engineering experience preferred (Hive, Presto, SQL Server, Redshift, Python, Mode Analytics, Tableau, Databricks)
• Experience with cloud services (AWS)

Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field