Lead Software Engineer, AI Automation
About The Position
CoStar Group is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their Web Enterprise team. This role is responsible for designing, building, and evolving software platforms that support their proprietary CRM ecosystem and enterprise applications across multiple brands. The ideal candidate will have experience solving complex technical challenges, architecting scalable systems, and driving engineering innovation through AI adoption. The successful candidate will combine deep software engineering expertise with a passion for leveraging AI-powered development and testing tools to improve software quality, developer productivity, and delivery speed. As a technical expert, they will influence architecture, establish engineering best practices, and help drive the adoption of AI-assisted software development, intelligent automation, and modern test engineering methodologies. CoStar is investing heavily in artificial intelligence to accelerate software delivery, improve platform observability, automate research and business workflows, enhance product experiences through intelligent agents and skills, and improve data quality across enterprise systems. Successful candidates will demonstrate a willingness to learn, adopt, and apply AI technologies responsibly to solve complex business and engineering challenges. This position is located in Richmond, VA and is in office Monday through Thursday with work from home on Friday.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field from an accredited, not for profit, in-person university or college.
- Track record of commitment to prior employers.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack application development.
- Proven experience delivering and scaling successful software products throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript, C#, .NET, React, SQL Server, Elasticsearch, AWS, and modern cloud-native development practices.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, API design, and scalable application development.
- Experience evaluating, adopting, or developing AI-powered solutions and applications.
- Familiarity with large language models (LLMs), agent frameworks, AI orchestration tools, and AI-assisted development platforms.
- Understanding of observability, monitoring, telemetry analysis, automated incident detection, and operational intelligence platforms.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively engage engineers, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
Nice To Haves
- Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with a proven ability to leverage AI, technical expertise, and innovative thinking to solve complex business challenges and deliver scalable solutions.
- Experience designing and developing automated testing platforms, quality engineering frameworks, or developer productivity solutions that accelerate software delivery, improve reliability, and reduce operational overhead.
- Experience developing, deploying, or managing AI-powered applications, copilots, agents, intelligent search experiences, or workflow automation platforms.
- Experience implementing AI-enabled data quality solutions, including enrichment, deduplication, classification, entity resolution, anomaly detection, and governance.
- Experience operating large-scale cloud-native applications in AWS environments.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, and delivery ownership for a portfolio of software products and platforms.
- Champion AI-assisted software development practices that improve developer productivity, code quality, platform reliability, and engineering efficiency.
- Leverage AI-powered observability, monitoring, anomaly detection, and automation capabilities to improve system resiliency, incident response, and customer experience.
- Identify and implement intelligent solutions that streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and accelerate business outcomes.
- Lead the design, development, and governance of AI-powered solutions, including agents, tools, skills, copilots, and workflow automations that enhance internal operations and customer-facing products.
- Establish and enforce engineering and testing best practices related to software quality, security, scalability, observability, and operational excellence.
- Promote responsible AI adoption by ensuring solutions meet established security, privacy, compliance, governance, and quality standards.
- Apply modern quality management practices to deliver reliable, maintainable, and defect-resistant software solutions.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
- Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
- Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
- Commuter and parking benefits
- 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
- Access to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups
- Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
