Senior Front-end Engineer

Zillow Zillow · Consumer · Mexico City, Mexico

Senior Front-end Engineer role at Zillow focused on transforming the home-buying experience through virtual home tours and media-rich web experiences for 3D Home and Interactive Floor Plan products. The role involves heavy React/Redux/Typescript development, Three.js/WebGL, Apollo Client/GraphQL, and Node.js, with expectations for infrastructure knowledge (AWS, Gitlab pipelines, webpack) and focus on web performance, monitoring, SSR, and accessibility. Collaboration with computer vision and ML teams is mentioned, but the core responsibilities are front-end development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Heavy React + Redux development. In-depth Typescript experience
  2. Three.js/WebGL and React-Three-Fiber framework development experience
  3. Apollo Client / GraphQL working knowledge is important
  4. CSS knowledge is also important.
  5. Node.js experience

Skills

Required

  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Redux
  • Typescript
  • GraphQL
  • Computer Graphics
  • Three.js
  • React-Three-Fiber
  • HTTP basics
  • CSS
  • Team leadership
  • mentoring skills

Nice to have

  • GLSL shaders
  • Computer graphics theory
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • Flink
  • MS SQL Server
  • Git

What the JD emphasized

  • Team leadership and mentoring skills. This is a core expectation for a Senior level position.