Senior Applications Engineer

About the team

This is an opportunity to join Zillow Group's Enterprise Application Engineering team! We use our enterprise engineering expertise to architect, build, and support innovative solutions using both SaaS application functionality and custom engineered solutions. Our team builds and supports Workday Integrations, Extend Applications, Employee Data Services, Enterprise Search, Intranet, Gen AI Assistants, and other internal tools supporting Cloud HQ.

The team has a culture of engineering and operational excellence, ensuring that all our solutions are well-designed and resilient. We collaborate closely with application analysts, engineers, and product teams to deliver these solutions.

About the role

As a Senior Application Engineer in the Enterprise Engineering team, you will be instrumental in accelerating our pace and efficiency by designing and building solutions that create extensible and scalable platforms & services used across Zillow. You will lay the groundwork for some of our most crucial automation systems that empower your colleagues to excel and enable Zillow to scale.

Our mission is to create delightful experiences for our internal customers. In this role, you will innovate, drive solutioning, and complete that mission. We are seeking an experienced Application Engineer to help us advance our mission to Zillow 2.0!

As a Senior Applications Engineer, you will:

• Authoring effective architectures and delivering critical bodies of code that contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of employee-centric technical solutions in Workday, Gen AI Agents, Enterprise Search, and other SaaS products.

• Influencing and shaping the enterprise technology roadmap, architecture, and design standards, working closely with other Seniors to design, adapt, and grow your architecture to respond to changing business needs.

• Cultivating a sophisticated network of third-party tools into a unified, mature, and scalable platform, optimizing code for better scalability, performance, and readability.

• Continuously enhancing system performance and reliability, diagnosing and resolving unforeseen operational events, and ensuring they don't happen again.

• Collaborating with system analysts and other engineering teams to build and test comprehensive solutions.

• Ensuring that your team’s work is rigorously tested using repeatable, automated patterns.

• Operating within an Agile/Scrum framework, coordinating closely with Product & Engineering teams to deliver value across multiple services or key components.

• Participating in a team on-call rotation to troubleshoot and resolve the most difficult and critical issues with our tools.

• Own the enterprise technology roadmap and design standards, collaborate with senior team members, and adjust your architectural strategies to meet evolving business requirements.

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