Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

News Corp’s News & Insights team is building the backend and product experiences behind Realtor.com’s high-traffic news platform. This senior role is backend-heavy, while still requiring meaningful frontend delivery in React and Next.js, along with ownership of reliability, caching, and platform support for AI-powered Hyperlocal content.

You will help design and run server-side systems and APIs, ship consumer-facing features end to end, and collaborate with Product, editorial stakeholders, and engineering partners to align technical priorities with platform needs.

What you’ll do

• Build and expand consumer-facing features across both frontend and backend.
• Contribute to React and Next.js features, particularly for work that spans multiple layers of a product feature.
• Own full-stack work from technical design through testing, release, and production support.
• Design, build, and scale backend services and APIs supporting the News & Insights platform.
• Develop and maintain Node.js and TypeScript services, GraphQL schemas, persisted queries, and RESTful APIs.
• Own server-side data flows, making informed decisions on service boundaries, performance, and maintainability.
• Improve caching and delivery strategies, including CDN or edge caching, object caching, and incremental rendering.
• Contribute to logging, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and production reliability improvements.
• Support automated testing, CI/CD, and safe, repeatable releases in partnership with platform and infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to backend services, integrations, and data flows supporting the AI-powered Hyperlocal content platform.
• Collaborate with Product, editorial stakeholders, and engineering partners to shape technical priorities.
• Communicate technical trade-offs clearly and participate in design discussions, code reviews, Agile ceremonies, and roadmap planning.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend foundation and meaningful frontend experience.
• Experience owning full-stack features or product areas from design through production.
• Strong JavaScript or TypeScript experience; Node.js is strongly preferred.
• Experience building frontend features with React, Next.js, or a comparable modern framework.
• Experience designing and operating RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, or comparable service interfaces.
• Experience with automated testing, production troubleshooting, and reliability-focused engineering decisions.
• Familiarity with cloud deployment, CI/CD, AWS, or comparable platform practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Technologies you’ll work with

• Node.js, TypeScript
• GraphQL, GraphQL schemas, persisted queries
• React, Next.js
• REST APIs
• CDN, edge caching, object caching, incremental rendering
• AWS
• CI/CD
• Docker / containerized deployments
• Logging, monitoring, alerting

Role details

• Location: Austin, TX, United States (onsite)
• Experience: 5+ years
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience)

Benefits

• Inclusive and competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 paid holidays
• Flexible time off
• 8 hours of paid volunteer time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized financial planning sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location

Direct WordPress experience is not required. The priority is the ability to work effectively across frontend and backend systems and contribute to a high-traffic consumer platform.