Senior Frontend Developer, 3D - Web

About the teamZillow’s CMX Immersion Team builds virtual home tour experiences that power products like 3D Home and Interactive Floor Plans, helping people confidently explore homes online as part of Zillow’s broader home‑shopping journey. We bring together people from product, research, engineering, and business backgrounds to create media‑rich, immersive experiences on Zillow.com in close partnership with our computer vision and machine learning teams.

About the role

As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the CMX Immersion Team, you will design and build media‑rich web experiences for Zillow’s 3D Home and Interactive Floor Plan products, directly shaping how millions of shoppers explore homes online. You’ll work closely with our computer vision, machine learning, backend, product, and design partners to deliver high‑quality virtual tour experiences, influence frontend architecture, and champion performance, accessibility, and reliability across our 3D experiences.

You will get to:

• Design, build, and maintain media‑rich web experiences for Zillow’s 3D Home and Interactive Floor Plan products using React, Redux, and TypeScript.

• Implement and optimize interactive 3D rendering experiences with Three.js, React Three Fiber, and WebGL to deliver smooth, immersive virtual tours in the browser.

• Collaborate closely with computer vision, machine learning, backend, product, and design teams to define requirements, iterate on prototypes, and ship high‑impact features end‑to‑end.

• Influence frontend architecture and technical direction to ensure our 3D experiences are scalable, maintainable, and resilient over time.

• Improve web performance, accessibility, and reliability, including work on server‑side rendering, monitoring, and observability for our experiences on Zillow.com.

• Engage with infrastructure and tooling when needed, including Node.js, GitLab pipelines, AWS services (such as S3 and CloudFront), build tooling (like webpack and code splitting), and monitoring tools like Sentry.

• Contribute to automated testing and quality practices, including end‑to‑end tests using tools such as Cypress or Playwright.

• Mentor other engineers, share best practices, and help foster an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture within the team.

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

In California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC the standard base pay range for this role is $160,900.00 - $257,100.00 annually. This base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations. In Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont the standard base pay range for this role is $152,900.00 - $244,300.00 annually. The base pay range is specific to these locations and may not be applicable to other locations.

In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside.

Who you are

• You bring 5+ years of software development experience or relevant transferable skills

• You bring strong 3D rendering experience with Three.js and React Three Fiber, and a deep understanding of WebGL fundamentals, GPU rendering pipelines, shaders, and performance optimization techniques.

• You have extensive frontend development experience with JavaScript (and ideally TypeScript), React, and Redux, building complex, user‑facing web applications.

• You are comfortable working with GraphQL (for example, Apollo Client) and have a strong understanding of HTTP fundamentals, including caching, response codes, headers, cookies, and sessions.

• You are proficient in modern CSS, including responsive layouts, working with component libraries, and using layout systems.

• You are comfortable going beyond application code when needed, engaging with Node.js, build and deployment pipelines (e.g., GitLab), AWS services like S3 and CloudFront, build tooling such as webpack and code splitting, and monitoring tools like Sentry.

• You care deeply about web performance, accessibility, and reliability, and have experience (or strong interest) in areas such as performance tuning, monitoring, server‑side rendering, and observability.

• You contribute to automated testing and code quality, ideally including experience with end‑to‑end testing tools such as Cypress or Playwright.

• You have proven experience leading projects and mentoring other engineers, and you enjoy helping grow the skills of people around you.

• You collaborate effectively and respectfully with teammates across disciplines—such as backend engineering, product, and design—and help foster an inclusive, supportive team environment.

• Bonus: You have experience with one or more of the following: WebGPU, Docker and Kubernetes, Kafka or Flink, or advanced Git workflows.

• Here at Zillow, we value the experience and perspective of candidates with non‑traditional backgrounds. We encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences.

Get to know us

At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers. As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., we help customers navigate buying, selling, financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Whether you're working in tech, sales, operations, or design, you’ll be part of a company that's reshaping an industry and helping more people make home a reality.

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the country. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.

No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact your recruiter directly.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable state and local law.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.