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CoStar•Irvine, CA

88d•$144,000 - $223,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Apartments.com builds a suite of Rental Tools for property managers — leasing, applications, maintenance, messaging, and payments. You'll be a Team Lead within the payments team, managing 3–5 engineers. We process approximately $6 billion annually across ACH, cards, and digital wallets, and handle 1099-K information returns on behalf of our customers. The work is operationally critical, and directly tied to the financial lives of both property managers and residents. Our team is seeking an accomplished Technical Team Lead, Software Engineer to join our team in supporting multiple software products and brands across the organization. You will have a direct impact on highly visible Apartments.com web applications that touch millions of users. You continuously learn emerging technologies and architecture advancements and apply the learnings to improve Apartments’ software products. You'll work with Engineering Leaders and Product Managers to scope and refine changes to the Payments product — turning feature requests into clear technical plans, then landing them quickly and safely. You'll bring a growth mindset, continuously developing your team's capability, adopting new tools, techniques, and AI to raise the quality and pace of delivery. You'll develop a deep understanding of the Payments product — guiding technical decisions, challenging assumptions, and representing the team confidently. Prior payments experience is a plus.

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 the following technologies: 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 is highly desired
Experience with AWS EC2/ECS/S3/RDS/SQS/Aurora/Lambda is highly desired
Experience with Redis
Commercial Real Estate knowledge is a bonus
Prior payments experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

Manage 3-5 engineers within the payments team.
Process approximately $6 billion annually across ACH, cards, and digital wallets.
Handle 1099-K information returns on behalf of customers.
Work with Engineering Leaders and Product Managers to scope and refine changes to the Payments product.
Turn feature requests into clear technical plans.
Develop the 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.
Challenge assumptions.
Represent the team confidently.

Benefits

Generous compensation and performance-based incentives
Internal training
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 Employee Resource Groups
Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks