Manager, Software Engineering

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Job Description

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CoStar delivers real-time, verified commercial real estate data that helps clients confidently spot great opportunities and make smart choices ahead of competitors. By combining the power of CoStar’s independent research organization – the industry’s largest – with global data delivery, software, and application solutions, clients can act on opportunities with confidence.

Our team is responsible for the development of CoStar's customer-facing Real Estate Analytics products. We think big, creating innovative data-intensive applications that take the vast amount of data collected by our CoStar Research teams to create a fast, reliable, and intuitive analytics platform for our customers. We are a collaborative group with a mix of big data, API/platform, and front-end skills, and we are working to create the future of Real Estate Analytics.

We are looking for a Technical Manager to join our group and drive the full-lifecycle development of these critical products. This includes the architecture, development, and ownership of our web-based data analytics applications. This role will collaborate closely with other technical leadership, product owners and other developers, while also giving you independence and ownership of your work. As a senior member of the group, you will drive the technical strategy and architecture of our platform.

This position is in San Diego, CA and offers the work schedule option of 3 days on-site and 2 days remote.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead an Agile full stack software development team (approximately 4-6 people) to deliver scalable high performance technical solutions.
• Act as a player-coach, who can mentor and coach team members into highly productive team players.
• Promote can-do attitude, engineering mindset, and collaboration as fundamental team values.
• Influence application architecture and CI/CD pipeline improvements.
• Architecting, building, testing, and deploying scalable, reusable, and maintainable applications that handle large amounts of data.
• Drive continuous improvement by focusing on engineering excellence.
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements, develop project plans, and work schedules for use by development teams.
• Successfully implement software development projects to specification and within scheduled timelines and budget parameters
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and other Agile teams to deliver large initiatives.
• Work with recruiting to identify, hire, and onboard top industry talent.
• Develop and maintain an in-depth working knowledge of the CRE Industry and CoStar’s business model / technology.
• Be hands on and be able to evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStar’s technology platform and development practices.
• · Adopt an owner-operator mindset and demonstrate full ownership of the product and technical platforms.
• · Act as "Voice of the Customer" when participating in product readiness reviews.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college.
• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• A track record of commitment to prior employers.
• 4+ years’ experience building large distributed, API-driven systems.
• 3+ years of experience leading agile teams.
• Significant full-stack experience, with deep expertise in back-end technologies (C#, .NET Core 6.x¸ .NET Framework, Web API, Node, etc.).
• Experience with Kafka, DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda, S3, and Redis.
• Experience leading technical teams, working through complex requirements, and offering relevant, timely technical solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; Must be able to communicate at a level appropriate to the audience (direct reports, peers, and senior management).
• Excellent team building, negotiation, and consensus building abilities.
• Ability to motivate and build high performance software development teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Real world experience designing and implementing complex application architectures on Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in both designing and securing solutions in a complex and regulated enterprise environment.
• Commercial Real Estate (CRE) knowledge is a bonus.

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

This position offers a base salary range of 206,000 – 258,000 based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous benefits plan.

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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

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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