Apartments.com - Technical Team Lead, Software Engineering (Payments/C#/.NET/SQL)

Apartments.com - Technical Team Lead, Software Engineering (Payments/C#/.NET/SQL)

Job Description

CoStar Group is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index, 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.   

Apartments.com is the nation’s #1 rental marketplace for owners, property managers and consumers. Apartments.com is the network that millions of renters every year rely on to find their new place, is continuing to grow our industry-leading sales force. We provide apartment Property Managers and Owners with a platform to market their property listings and the industry’s most comprehensive virtual tools to attract the most and highest-quality renters. The Apartments.com Network includes Apartments.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentFinder.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, and eight other leading rental sites. Our suite of services includes digital advertising, social and reputation management, and market analytic solutions which delivers innovative tools for our customers.

Apartments.com builds suite of Rental Tools for property managers — leasing, applications, maintenance, messaging, and payments. You'll be a Team Lead within the payments team, managing 3–5 engineers. We process approximately $6 billion annually across ACH, cards, and digital wallets, and handle 1099-K information returns on behalf of our customers. The work is operationally critical, and directly tied to the financial lives of both property managers and residents.

 Learn more about Apartments.com.

Our team is seeking an accomplished Technical Team Lead, Software Engineer to join our team in supporting multiple software products and brands across the organization. You will have a direct impact on highly visible Apartments.com web applications that touch millions of users. You continuously learn emerging technologies and architecture advancements and apply the learnings to improve Apartments’ software products.

You'll work with Engineering Leaders and Product Managers to scope and refine changes to the Payments product — turning feature requests into clear technical plans, then landing them quickly and safely. You'll bring a growth mindset, continuously developing your team's capability, adopting new tools, techniques, and AI to raise the quality and pace of delivery. You'll develop a deep understanding of the Payments product — guiding technical decisions, challenging assumptions, and representing the team confidently. Prior payments experience is a plus.

This position is located in Irvine, CA and is in office Monday through Thursday with work from home on Friday.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university
• A track record of commitment to prior employers 
• 10+ years of development experience
• Experience in Web based and Database technologies
• Solid web development and troubleshooting skills
• Solid experience with the following technologies: C#, ASP.NET, SQL/Postgres
• Experience in developing Server Side Rendered and Single Page Web Applications
• Experience in fast paced Agile Scrum environments.
• Understanding & implementation of automated test processes
• Strong project management skills
• 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

• 1+ years of team leadership experience managing direct reports
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or React is highly desired
• Experience with AWS EC2/ECS/S3/