Homes.com - Lead Software Engineer

Homes.com - Lead Software Engineer

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Job Description

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Overview

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 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. 

Our team is seeking an accomplished 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 Homes web applications that touch millions of users. You continuously learn emerging technologies and architecture advancements and apply the learnings to improve Homes’ software products.

This position is located in Irvine, CA and offers a schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.

Responsibilities

• 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#

• Develop an in-depth understanding of CoStar’s product architecture and frameworks. Maintain and contribute to CoStar’s product platform as necessary.

• Develop database stored procedures and SQL scripts/ETL jobs that meet CoStar database standards to implement product requirements.

• Participate and drive continuous improvement within CoStar’s Agile/Scrum teams. 

• Build consensus among different teams working on software development projects.

• 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 from an accredited, not-for-profit university or college (Computer Science or Engineering preferred).

• A track record of commitment to prior employers.

• 10+ 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

• Deliver 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