Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

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.

is the nation’s #1 rental marketplace for owners, property managers and consumers.  is the network that millions of renters every year rely on to find their new place, is continuing to grow our industry‑leading sales force. We provide apartment Property Managers and Owners with a platform to market their property listings and the industry’s most comprehensive virtual tools to attract the most and highest‑quality renters.

The  Network includes , , , , and eight other leading rental sites. Our suite of services includes digital advertising, social and reputation management, and market analytic solutions which delivers innovative tools for our customers.

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As a Principal Software Engineer, you will proactively lead the collaboration and engagement with product and engineering teams to deliver cutting edge and innovative solutions based on architectural best practices. You will work with other architects, product management, and engineering to build out the Costar enterprise architecture.

On any given day you will be creating and documenting architectures for new features, products, and processes; socializing and evangelizing those architectures and designs, best practices; understanding business goals from leadership and Product Management and adding architectural guidance to distill requirements, leverage existing systems across domains, and generally help bring those ideas to life;
Discovering, researching, and presenting new technologies that will enhance and improve new and existing systems;
Helping balance the needs of Engineering, Product, and Management to deliver cutting‑edge and innovative products.

This position is in office Monday through Thursday and work from home on Friday.

• Interfaces with the architecture team and other functional areas to propose the most efficient solution. Presents solutions to senior architects, engineering, and management.
• Ensures solutions are well architected based upon Costar Ecosystem Standards and guidelines.
• Keeps abreast of current and future trends, technology and information that will positively affect organizational projects. Applies and integrates emerging technologies and patterns to new and existing systems architecture where appropriate.
• Assists in the development of solution architecture (both tactical and strategic) to fully manage/support the company’s products, services, systems, and technologies.
• Assists in the planning and design of new or upgraded systems. Interacts with departments to implement improvements in process.
• Mentors team members in relevant technologies and architecture patterns
• Develops, documents and ensures compliance with best practices including but not limited to the following: data management, coding standards, object‑oriented designs, cloud‑delivery patterns, platform and framework specific design concerns, and human interface guidelines.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent, and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and…