Homes.com - Technical Manager, Mobile Engineering (iOS/Android)

Homes.com - Technical Manager, Mobile Engineering (iOS/Android)

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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 Irvine, CA team is seeking an Technical Manager of Mobile Engineering to join our team in supporting the supporting multiple software products and brands across the organization, such as www.homes.com and www.homesnap.com. 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 and offers 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.

Responsibilities

• Act as a player coach with 6+ years of industry experience managing multiple project development teams working on multiple concurrent projects

• Coordinate the activities and deliverables across multiple teams while resolving issues and ensuring appropriate priorities

• Mentor and manage Technical Managers in the normal execution of their responsibilities.

• Interact regularly with technology and business executives

• Translate business requirements into technical requirements, develop project plan and work schedules for use by scrum development teams

• Successfully implement software development projects to specification and within scheduled timelines and budget parameters.  Ensure proper software development practices are followed and provide guidance and/or assistance when necessary

• Provide status reports and feedback to Business Management

• Act as release manager to ensure product components are released for production deployment as tested

• Drive continuous improvement within Scrum team by focusing on engineering excellence

• Work with recruiting to identify, hire and onboard top industry talent

• Coach, motivate, train, and retain key contributors

• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStar’s technology platform and development practices

• 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

• A track record of commitment to prior employers

• 6+ years of experience with mob