Software Engineer II

at  CoStar Group

Software Engineer II
Job Description
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.
As a CoStar Software Engineer on the Platform Development team you will play a key role in expanding the data platform that supports all of CoStar Group’s largest brands including, CoStar Suite, LoopNet and Apartments.com.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• A demonstrable track record of building and launching successful products and/or platforms that leverage terabytes of data and scale to meet the needs of millions of users
• 3+ years of deep (really deep) .NET development (C#) development experience including cross platform communication technologies such as Web API or WCF
• 3+ years of database design, T-SQL programming and performance tuning experience
• Ability to design and develop using Object Oriented design principles and software design patterns to attain high reusability and maintainability

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Deliver work products that meet specifications, are defect free and performant
• Experienced in application performance testing and unit testing strategies and implementation
• Facilitate discussions among other developers to exchange ideas and introduce new technologies. Ability to build consensus among other technologist.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends and best practices that can be leveraged to strengthen CoStar’s technology platform and development practices.
• Willingness to take an active role in mentoring other developers

• Know: Deeply understand what drives the business for which you are building software. We firmly believe that what separates a good developer from a great one is a deep understanding of the business that they are supporting.
• Architect: Use your experience to drive the design of highly performant and highly available products and platforms.
• Build: Build solutions that operate on massive amounts of data in high transaction volume applications.
• Test: Work with your QA resources to ensure that the software you deliver is of the highest quality. (Our customers are not beta testers.)
• Launch: Act as a key member of the product launch team and work closely to DevOps to resolve operational issues.
• Grow: Take an active role in mentoring other developers.