Job Description

As aTeam Leadin Software Engineering, you willbe responsible forproviding project definition and implementation through hands-on management of multiple software development teamsleveragingAgile Scrum development and project management best practices defined by the company.You will undertake the execution of software development projects to achieve the company27s strategicobjectivesand 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 CoStar27s technology platform and develop practices

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor27s degreefrom an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person university or college
• Track record of commitment to prior employers
• 5+ years27 experience in web development and database technologies
• 3+ years27 experience building large distributed, API-driven systems
• Strong understanding of OOP and software design patterns
• Experience using TypeScript, C#, SQL Server, AWS technologies, or similar tools
• Experience leading a technical team, working through complexrequirementsand offering relevant, timely technical solutions.
• Understanding AI technologies and has hands on experience in AI adoption and development.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; Must be able to communicate at a level appropriate to the audience (direct reports, peers and senior management)
• Ability to motivate and build high performance software development teams.
• Familiarity with modern AI platforms, large language models (LLMs), agent orchestration frameworks, or AI-assisted development tools.
• Understanding of observability, monitoring, replayability, telemetry analysis, and automated incident detection platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Docker and container orchestration a plus.
• ExperiencebuildingAIfeatureswithBedrockorAzure
• ExperiencewithOpenSearchisaplus
• ExperiencewithReactforfrontenddevelopmentisaplus
• Other technology areas we lean into; AWSS3,Lambda,SQS,Kafka,and Redis
• Experience developing or managing AI-powered applications, agents, tools, search experiences, or intelligent automation platforms.
• Experience leveraging AI to improve software engineering productivity, operational monitoring, research workflows, and data stewardship.
• Experience implementing AI-assisted data quality solutions including deduplication, enrichment, classification, anomaly detection, and entity matching.

What27s in it for you?

When you join CoStar Group, you27ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• 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
• Tuition reimbursement
• 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 Group27s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role will fall within the range set forth below based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

Base Compensation: $155,000.00-$203,000.00 Annually

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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