Job details
About the team
Follow Up Boss (FUB) is Zillow’s CRM platform that helps real estate professionals run their businesses with a full suite of tools spanning lead management, communications, financing, and reporting insights. It’s where agents manage relationships, track interactions, and convert opportunities into outcomes.This role sits on the team that owns financing and reporting experiences within FUB mobile. These experiences enable agents to connect their leads with financing workflows at critical moments, helping them better serve their clients while contributing to Zillow’s broader business objectives. Because these surfaces are foundational, highly visible, and closely tied to agent trust and adoption, the work is impactful, detail-oriented, and held to a very high quality bar.
Engineers on this team work closely with Product, Design, and partner engineering teams across the company to deliver reliable, intuitive Android experiences that fit naturally into agents’ daily workflows and support high-stakes business decisions.
About the role
As a Senior Software Development Engineer – Android, you will play a key role in shaping the mobile experience for Follow Up Boss. The features you build will be used daily by thousands of real estate professionals to run and grow their businesses, directly influencing how they manage client relationships and close more deals.
In this role, you will:
Lead the design and development of complex, high-impact Android features used daily by thousands of real estate professionals.
Own end-to-end Android delivery, from technical design and implementation through testing, release, and ongoing maintenance.
Drive architectural improvements, modularization, and adoption of modern Android best practices to keep the app scalable, maintainable, and fast for our users.
Partner closely with product managers, designers, and cross-platform engineering teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality mobile workflows.
Champion code quality, performance, reliability, and operational excellence across the Android codebase.
Act as a technical leader by mentoring engineers, providing thoughtful reviews, and influencing technical direction for the broader team.
In addition to a competitive base salary and benefits, this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.
Who you are
You have 5+ years of professional experience as a senior Android engineer, building and maintaining large-scale, production Android applications used at scale, with strong proficiency in Kotlin and core Android fundamentals (lifecycle, UI, threading, and performance).
You have hands-on experience with modern Android frameworks and libraries such as Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Room, Hilt/Dagger, Retrofit, Firebase, and related tooling, and you are comfortable learning new tools and techniques as the Android ecosystem evolves.
You care deeply about technical quality, system design, and long-term maintainability, and you apply clean architecture principles, modularization, and scalable app design in your work.
You are skilled in Android app profiling and performance optimization, including debugging crashes, memory issues, and UI performance problems, and you have experience with automated testing (unit, UI, integration) and CI/CD pipelines.
You have experience leading and delivering end-to-end features while partnering closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams, and you are comfortable operating with high autonomy in ambiguous problem spaces.
You mentor other engineers through reviews, guidance, and leading by example, contribute to org-wide technical direction, and communicate clearly with a style that adapts to your audience and context.
You collaborate reliably, follow through to unblock progress, and raise the bar for those around you while remaining curious and adaptable as the product and platform evolve.
You are familiar with, or eager to learn, AI-powered developer tools (for example, tools like Cursor and Firebender) and integrate them thoughtfully and responsibly into your workflows.
You are fluent in English and Spanish (both written and spoken).
Here at Zillow, we value the experience and perspective of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds, and we encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences.
Get to know us
At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help customers navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company that's reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.
Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.
No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.
Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
