Software Engineer - Research Development

Costar Group, Inc. • Richmond, VA

63d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. We are seeking a Full-Stack Software Engineer who excels at designing and architecting modern web applications. This engineer would support our Web Enterprise team in building the software tools that power our proprietary CRM platform and support our sales and research teams across Homes.com, Costar.com, Apartments.com, LoopNet.com, and more. This position is located in our Richmond, VA office and offers a schedule of Monday-Thursday in office and Friday work from home.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college.
• 3+ years of software development experience
• Demonstrated experience in designing and building large scale distributed, services-oriented systems and web applications in an agile environment
• Experience developing frontend applications using React
• Experience building RESTful APIs using C#
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Familiarity with CI/CD deployment processes
• A track record of commitment to prior employer

Nice To Haves

• Experience with SQL
• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners)
• Data modeling experience from conceptual, logical and physical designs

Responsibilities

• Building customer facing web applications using the latest React and TypeScript frameworks.
• Build micro services and RESTful APIs C# and .NET Core
• Drive and lead software design, developing standards and performing code reviews, that result in robust a code base that is efficient and maintainable.
• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices that can be leveraged to strength CoStar's technology platform and develop practices.
• Develop comprehensive application testing procedures to ensure high quality applications for tens of thousands of users.

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 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Broadcasting and Content Providers
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees