LoopNet - Vice President, Software Engineering

Overview

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.

Loop Net, the most popular place to find a space, is the #1 global commercial real estate marketplace. With more than 12 million global unique monthly visitors, Loop Net provides brokers, buyers and sellers with what they need to meet and make deals. Loop Net has established itself as the most effective and far-reaching digital marketplace for commercial real estate owners and brokers.

We are not done yet! We continue to focus on driving expansion by increasing market share in the US and abroad, continuously innovating and enhancing the product and growing a powerhouse global team to reach our goals.

• Act as a player coach with 10+ years of industry experience managing multiple project development teams working on multiple concurrent projects
• Coordinate the activities and deliverables across 10-15 teams while resolving issues and ensuring appropriate priorities
• Mentor and manage Technical Managers in the normal execution of their responsibilities
• Interact regularly with technology and business executives
• Conduct ongoing and in depth needs analysis (approximately 20% of total time) with client to obtain detailed business requirements
• Successfully implement software development projects to specification and within scheduled timelines and budget parameters
• Ensure proper software development practices are followed and provide guidance and/or assistance when necessary
• Provide status reports and feedback to Business Management
• Act as release manager to ensure product components are released for production deployment as tested
• Work with internal and external clients to document project success criteria
• Drive continuous improvement within Scrum team by focusing on engineering excellence
• Work with recruiting to identify, hire and onboard top industry talent
• Manage up or out any team members that are performing below expectation of position
• Coach, motivate, train and retain "A Players"
• Develop and maintain an in-depth working knowledge of the CRE Industry and CoStar’s position in the Commercial Real Estate market
• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStar’s technology platform and development practices
• Act as "Voice of the Customer" when participating in product readiness reviews

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or adjacent field required from an accredited, not for profit, university or college
• A track record of commitment to prior employers and 10+ years of experience leading large engineering teams focused on building software web tools
• Proven ability to lead and motivate cross‑functional teams while thriving in a fast‑paced growth tech environment
• Demonstrated ability to build strong internal relationships and manage key stakeholders, including at the CEO level
• Experience architecting, building, and operating well‑architected, high‑availability, cloud‑based software systems, including full stack product platforms (UIs, APIs, Data, etc.)
• Hands‑on development experience with front end development…