Principal Software Engineer - Homes.com

at  CoStar Group

Principal Software Engineer - Homes.com


Job Description


Job Description

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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college (preferably in Computer Science/Engineering)
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• Minimum 12+ years of professional software development experience
• Deep knowledge of back-end (C#, .NET, Web API) languages and application frameworks
• Expertise with relational database systems such as SQL Server is required
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Experience as a technical leader or architect, with people leadership plus solid understanding and experience with Object Oriented Programming.
• Experience with NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Expertise with software development best practices, including standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing and operations.
• Expertise with Source Control, such as Git or TFS.
• Expertise with Cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.

• Leading the design, development, and implementation of engineering solutions and frameworks widely used by internal or external CoStar teams
• Architecting, building, testing, and deploying multi-tenant, scalable, reusable, and maintainable applications that handle large amounts of data.
• Taking full ownership of your work from development and testing to eventual deployment and support in production.
• Collaborating with other engineers, product owners, designers, and leadership.
• Becoming a trusted advisor in the team in matters of technical architecture, design, and code.
• Advocating for evolution and improvement - both technical and non-technical - within our teams including new technology, tools, and best practices.
• Developing platforms and frameworks to streamline the software development process
• Creating software development and testing standards for the organization
• Gaining a deep understanding of the CoStar business.