Team Lead, Software Engineering

Team Lead, Software Engineering 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.

As a Team Lead in Software Engineering, you will be responsible for providing project definition and implementation through hands‑on management of multiple software development teams leveraging Agile Scrum development and project management best practices defined by the company. You will undertake the execution of software development projects to achieve the company’s strategic objectives and must work closely with Product Leaders & other managers.

CoStar is investing heavily in artificial intelligence to accelerate software delivery, improve platform observability, automate research and business workflows, enhance product experiences through intelligent agents and skills, and improve data quality across enterprise systems. Successful candidates will demonstrate a willingness to learn, adopt, and apply AI technologies responsibly to solve complex business and engineering challenges.

This position is located in Richmond, VA and offers a schedule of Monday to Thursday in office and the option to work from home on Friday.

• Responsible for architecture, project ownership, and team leadership.
• Lead team(s) of talented software developers in building applications and platforms using modern object oriented programming languages.
• Act as a player-coach, who can mentor & coach highly productive team members.
• Promote can-do attitude, engineering mindset and collaboration as fundamental team values.
• Drive continuous improvement by focusing on engineering excellence.
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted software development practices to improve developer productivity, code quality, platform reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Leverage AI-powered monitoring, anomaly detection, replayability, and observability capabilities to improve system resiliency, incident response, root cause analysis, and customer experience.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to identify opportunities for intelligent processes that reduce manual effort, accelerate sales workflows, and improve operational effectiveness across CoStar platforms.
• Lead a team in designing, implementing, and governing AI-powered solutions including skills, agents, tools, and workflow automations that enhance both internal productivity and customer-facing products.
• Promote responsible AI adoption by ensuring solutions adhere to security, privacy, governance, and quality standards.
• Manage and coordinate projects within teams and across departments.
• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices that can be leveraged to strength CoStar’s technology platform and develop practices

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in‑person university or college
• Track record of commitment to prior employers
• 5+ years’ experience in web development and database technologies
• 3+ years’ experience building large distributed, API-driven systems
• Strong understanding of OOP and software design patterns
• Experience using Type Script, C#, SQL Server, AWS technologies, or similar tools
• Experience leading a technical team,…