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CoStar Group

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces, including Apartments.com, the nation’s #1 rental marketplace. CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering people to discover properties, insights, and connections. Apartments.com provides apartment Property Managers and Owners with a platform to market their property listings and comprehensive virtual tools to attract renters. The Apartments.com Network includes Apartments.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentFinder.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, and eight other leading rental sites, offering services like digital advertising, social and reputation management, and market analytic solutions. Apartments.com also builds a suite of Rental Tools for property managers, covering leasing, applications, maintenance, messaging, and payments. This role is for a Technical Team Lead within the payments team, managing 3-5 engineers. The payments team processes approximately $6 billion annually across ACH, cards, and digital wallets, and handles 1099-K information returns. The work is operationally critical and directly tied to the financial lives of both property managers and residents. The accomplished Technical Team Lead, Software Engineer will join the team to support multiple software products and brands, directly impacting highly visible Apartments.com web applications that touch millions of users. The role involves continuously learning emerging technologies and architecture advancements and applying them to improve Apartments’ software products. The Team Lead will work with Engineering Leaders and Product Managers to scope and refine changes to the Payments product, turning feature requests into clear technical plans and landing them quickly and safely. The position requires a growth mindset, continuously developing the team's capability, adopting new tools, techniques, and AI to raise the quality and pace of delivery. The lead will develop a deep understanding of the Payments product, guiding technical decisions, challenging assumptions, and representing the team confidently. Prior payments experience is a plus. This position is located in Irvine, CA, and operates on a hybrid schedule: in office Monday through Thursday with work from home on Friday.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university.
A track record of commitment to prior employers.
10+ years of development experience.
Experience in Web based and Database technologies.
Solid web development and troubleshooting skills.
Solid experience with C#, ASP.NET, SQL/Postgres.
Experience in developing Server Side Rendered and Single Page Web Applications.
Experience in fast paced Agile Scrum environments.
Understanding & implementation of automated test processes.
Strong project management skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; Must be able to communicate at a level appropriate to the audience (direct reports, peers and senior management).
Excellent team building, negotiation and consensus building abilities.
Ability to motivate and build high performance software development teams.

Nice To Haves

1+ years of team leadership experience managing direct reports.
Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or React.
Experience with AWS EC2/ECS/S3/RDS/SQS/Aurora/Lambda.
Experience with Redis.
Prior payments experience.
Commercial Real Estate knowledge.

Responsibilities

Manage 3–5 engineers within the payments team.
Work with Engineering Leaders and Product Managers to scope and refine changes to the Payments product.
Turn feature requests into clear technical plans, then landing them quickly and safely.
Bring a growth mindset, continuously developing your team's capability.
Adopt new tools, techniques, and AI to raise the quality and pace of delivery.
Develop a deep understanding of the Payments product.
Guide technical decisions, challenging assumptions, and representing the team confidently.
Support multiple software products and brands across the organization.
Have a direct impact on highly visible Apartments.com web applications that touch millions of users.
Continuously learn emerging technologies and architecture advancements and apply the learnings to improve Apartments’ software products.

Benefits

Generous compensation and performance-based incentives.
Internal training and tuition reimbursement.
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.
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.