Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

Zillow is reimagining how people move through the real estate market and their careers. They are seeking a Senior Manager of Software Development Engineering to lead frontend engineers on the Agentic Experience team, focusing on the UX of Zillow’s AI Mode across web and mobile platforms while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a team of 6–10 frontend engineers spanning web, iOS, and Android, fostering a culture of craft, cross-platform collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Evolve and extend the UX for Zillow's AI Mode across platforms — owning sprint planning, roadmap execution, and cross-team coordination to continuously improve and expand one of Zillow's most high-visibility product experiences
• Develop and coach your engineers — providing consistent feedback, supporting career growth, and creating an environment where people do their best work and feel a clear path forward
• Partner across product, design, AI/ML, and peer engineering teams — aligning on requirements, establishing consistent UX principles across platforms, and driving integrated agentic experiences to production

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful hands-on work in frontend development for web (React, TypeScript, CSS) and/or mobile (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin, or cross-platform frameworks)
• 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams, with a demonstrated track record of developing and retaining strong engineers
• Experience building or managing teams that work on AI-powered or agentic applications, including familiarity with multimodal input/output (text, voice, images) and streaming UX patterns
• Experience leading cross-platform frontend teams and navigating the trade-offs between platform-native and shared-component approaches
• A people-first leader with genuine technical credibility in frontend development — you've shipped rich user-facing experiences on web and/or mobile and use that experience to guide your team without micromanaging
• A champion for user experience quality — you hold a high bar for what great frontend work looks and feels like across web and mobile surfaces, and you bring the cross-platform perspective to keep those experiences consistent
• A coach and developer of talent who takes pride in seeing your engineers grow, receive promotions, and build rewarding careers
• A collaborative partner who builds trust across functions — product, design, AI/ML, and peer engineering teams — and drives outcomes through influence rather than authority
• A practitioner of AI-native development — you actively use AI coding tools and assistants yourself, and champion their adoption across your team as a genuine force multiplier throughout the software development lifecycle