Lead Software Engineer - Homes.com

Lead Software Engineer - Homes.com

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Job Description

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CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate. 

Homes.com 

Homes.com is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com. Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years' experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company. Learn more about Homes.com. 

We're looking for an object-oriented Lead Software Engineer who takes pride in backend development to contribute to building innovative, scalable applications in pursuit of a great user experience. You’ll help develop the next generation of residential products, apps, and services. You’ll gain experience in many different areas and have the opportunity to make a real impact to the company and real estate industry.

This position is located in Washington, DC and offers a hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high performance web applications used by hundreds of thousands of users globally.
• Design and develop using Object Oriented design principles and software design patterns to attain high reusability and maintainability.
• Deep knowledge and experience in writing unit testable software with C#
• Promote consistent architecture patterns for design and development within and across Homes development teams
• Collaborate closely with other Software Engineers across the organization.
• Advocate standards-driven technology
• Facilitate discussions among other .NET and database developers to exchange new ideas and improvements.
• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStar’s technology platform and development practices.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required (Computer Science or Engineering field preferred)
• 8+ years of production development experience with C# .Net (or .Net Core)
• A demonstrable track record of building and launching successful products and platforms.
• Demonstrate working knowledge Vue, React or Angular in TypeScript
• Experience delivering products that meet specifications and performance SLA.
• Experienced in unit, performance, and automation testing.
• Deeply understand what drives the business for which you are building software.
• Take an active role in mentoring developers with ability to build consensus.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Experience in relational database design (MS SQL or MySQL) including performance tuning.
• Experience with AWS S3, SQS, Dynamo, ElastiCache, Apache Kafka and Datadog

What’s in it for You

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing