Real estate marketplace and agent platform for home transactions
Realtor.com operates a scaled marketplace connecting home buyers, sellers, and agents, with engineering and product teams driving active work on buyer journey flows, fraud detection, and identity verification. The tech stack reveals a modern, cloud-native architecture built on AWS (EKS, Fargate, Lambda), Node.js + React frontend, and Python backend services (FastAPI, Pandas), while recent adoption of TikTok and Snapchat signals a shift toward short-form video channels for lead generation and agent discovery.
Notable leadership hires: Product Director, Strategy Director
Realtor.com is the primary digital real estate platform operated by News Corp subsidiary Move, Inc., licensed by the National Association of REALTORS. The platform serves home buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals with property listings, transaction tools, and agent discovery. With over 1,000 employees headquartered in Austin, the company runs a high-volume customer service operation alongside core product development, and is actively scaling infrastructure, fraud systems, and payment workflows to support long-term growth in the home transaction funnel.
AWS (EKS, Fargate, Lambda), Node.js, React, Python (FastAPI, Pandas, NumPy), GraphQL, Flutter/React Native, Salesforce, Oracle Cloud, and Braze for customer messaging.
Core projects include home buying journey product, fraud detection and identity verification, data pipelines, A/B experimentation, listing promotions, agent team branding, and AWS infrastructure optimization.
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