Jobs: Engineering

Redfin is a well-funded startup taking on a $40B industry's most audacious, complex e-commerce transaction: guiding buyers from offer to close and guiding sellers from listing to close. We're trying to do it better, faster, and less costly, where the customer always comes first; and we're doing it ad-free.

As a developer on the Commerce team, you will be responsible for writing mission critical end-to-end software enabling our agents to be the super-efficient, deal-closing customer advocates they are. In addition, you will also be responsible for helping us break ground on new, innovative customer-facing tools and technologies from the database schema up to the user interface. As you know, we've got the best real-estate search site around (and we're always making it better). Now we're building the best site to guide our customers after they find their dream home and want to take the next steps.

You: Rockstar developer with raw coding skills, a solid problem solver, likes to design complex systems for the fun of it, innovative visionary with a can-do attitude, successful history of driving projects to completion, and an instinct for building customer-driven applications to ultimately process billions in real estate transactions.

The Tools: There is Linux, Apache/Tomcat, tons of Java, some Postgres and some Hibernate, a bit of jUnit, a dash of Spring/JSP/HTML, a sprinkle of JavaScript/CSS/AJAX, and a host of other open source development tools.

What you'll get from us: Support and resources to continue learning, a young brilliant team with which to collaborate, an office in downtown Seattle close to all the action, and a commitment to your career so you can grow with the company under a management team that has experience building start-ups into profitable, publicly traded companies.

Interested? E-mail your resume to be considered as our next Sr. Software Developer, Commerce and describe 2-3 things about our website you would change.

Redfin is an equal opportunity employer.
Location: Seattle
Full-time position available.

Redfin built the best real estate site then hired and partnered with the best real estate agents. Now we are seeking a talented product/program manager to continue our charge designing the best home-buying and home-selling experience on the planet.

This PM will be responsible for all aspects of website interaction from the home page to home search to personalization and ultimately conversion. Redfin has made Time Magazine's list of Top 50 websites in both 2007 and 2009. Do you have what it takes to keep us there?

As product manager, your responsibilities include:

• Understanding business requirements: talking to customers and agents, studying competitors, and analyzing usage patterns to understand how to improve Redfin
• Leading the charge: working with execs & marketing to drive the product roadmap
• Communicating ideas: creating wireframes & specs to get feature ideas generated, agreement hammered out and sweetness built
• Designing product areas: writing specifications and collaborating with designers to develop product ideas into beautiful works of art
• Shipping killer software: partnering with engineering to ensure Redfin products are developed to spec, making trade-offs as needed for quality & the customer

To succeed, you'd need to be:

• A creative customer advocate: zeal for building an addictive, delightful user experience, and the instinct to identify with the customer
• Entrepreneurial: values speed, creativity and common-sense, able to initiate and willing to work hard
• Market-savvy: currency with what's happening on the frontiers of the Internet that's really powerful and cool
• A simplicity sensei: able to distill complicated info down to its essence, yet give the full bodied taste for those who crave the data
• Process-oriented: familiarity with every phase of product management, and the attention to detail to make sure development proceeds without a hitch

Before you apply, make sure you've got:

• Experience: a minimum of two years bringing successful consumer experiences to market
• Technical chops: enough technical skill to work closely with engineers designing products that are straightforward to code and test
• A four-year degree: preferably in computer science, or related field of study.

To apply, send a resume to Seattle.Engineers@Redfin.com with a summary of your experience and a few ideas on what you think would make Redfin's site better. Include "Product Manager: Search" in the subject line.

Tired of the commute? Redfin's office is located in San Francisco's Financial District.
Redfin is an equal opportunity employer.
Full-time position available.