Our Conversational Search team is building Redfin’s next generation artificial intelligence powered home search experience, redefining how millions of users discover homes. This is one of Redfin’s most ambitious and visible product initiatives for 2026, combining conversational UI, LLM powered reasoning, and high performance backend systems to create a fast, intuitive and deeply helpful way to search for homes. Because this new search paradigm attracts significant engagement and traffic, performance, reliability, and thoughtful UX design are critical. By joining the team, you’ll work at the intersection of AI, product design, and large-scale distributed systems to create a fundamentally better way for people to search for homes.
If you’re excited about building highly polished, user-facing products, experimenting rapidly, and helping define the future of search at Redfin, this is the team.
About the Role
- You will develop responsive, resilient, scalable, and high-quality conversational experiences using React, Java, AWS, Sierra AI and various other tools/libraries.
- You will balance the trade-offs between complex infrastructure investments and quick, pragmatic solutions to meet specific business needs.
- You will collaborate with other engineering and product stakeholders to define, design, and lead the development of significant multi-person projects.
- You will mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and advocating for best practices.
- You will stay up to date with the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem and help evaluate new tools, models, and frameworks.
About You
- 5+ years of professional full-stack software development experience, specifically in React and Java.
- You’re excited about LLMs, agent development, conversational UX, and emerging AI technologies.
- You have experience with modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript).
- Proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high-performance web applications.
- You love elegant interfaces that can tell stories and inspire trust.
- You are a teacher and a mentor: you have the leadership skills (and the patience) to improve the developers around you.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment, handle ambiguity, and empathize with customers.
- You are eager to help us in our mission to create a fundamentally better real estate experience for our customers.
Technologies We Use
- Java
- JavaScript, ReactJS
- SQL, Hibernate, PostgreSQL
- AWS, Redis Cache, Kafka
- CSS, HTML
- Kubernetes
- Production monitoring tools
- GraphQL
- Sierra AI SDK, OpenAI APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
What you’ll get
Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We’ve got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.
On-Call Expectations This role may include participation in an on-call rotation to support production systems and ensure service reliability. On-call responsibilities may include coverage during nights and weekends. If applicable, frequency and scheduling will be determined by team needs and communicated accordingly.
About us
**Redfin **is revolutionizing the $75 billion real estate industry. We use data, beautiful software, and innovative design to put customers first at every step in the home-buying and selling process. Get ready to dive headfirst into our award-winning website and mobile apps, solving complex business problems in a highly visible, customer-centric way. If you value doing great work in a collaborative environment, join our team!
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The compensation information below is provided in compliance with all applicable job posting disclosure requirements. The compensation for this position is $166,900.00-$203,900.00. The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus, incentives, and other employment-related benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401K retirement plan, and paid-time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found **_here_**. The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is the company’s current, good faith estimate at the time of posting. [Compensation and benefits are subject to modification from time to time as the Company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriate.] The Company may determine during its future reviews of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reduced. In no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position. Los Angeles County and San Francisco Candidates only: qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment per the Fair Chance Ordinance and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.