Software Engineer
Austin, TX, United States
Software Engineer
Job Description
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.
As an Engineer at CoStar Group, you will be working on highly visible applications used by millions of consumers across CoStar Groups subsidiaries. Our product group in Austin, TX is currently seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer II to join our team in supporting continual growth and development of our industry leading Apartments.com, ApartmentFinder.com, ForRent.com and ApartmentHomeLiving.com web sites. Work together with a ‘startup-minded’ development team delivering innovative web and business applications. Work is conducted using Ruby on Rails, C#, Python, and JavaScript, with most project code running on Linux. Applications are backed by SQL Server and a rich ecosystem of ETL processes, data caching, and application support architecture.
Responsibilities
Development of website and software using the above-mentioned technologies.
Building applications with innovative use of open-source software.
Best-practice software engineering for performance, maintainability, and stability.
Design and development of AJAX components.
Competence with Git or similar version control system and experience with SDLC.
Ability to work well in a team environment.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit university or college.
A track record of commitment to prior employers.
4+ years of web development experience on any platform.
2+ years of experience using a language such as Ruby on Rails, C#, Python, or PHP.
Competence on a Linux development stack.
Experience using cloud components/Amazon EC2.
Demonstrated competence with T-SQL/general SQL.
Demonstrated creativity and problem solving.
Proficiency with JavaScript
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
Strong opinions about software design and architecture
Ability to visualize and explain complex ideas and build agreement around those ideas with an experienced technical team.
High level proficiency in web applications development.
Strong knowledge of technical ecosystems & architecture (dev-ops, caching strategies, networking, performance optimization, network topologies, load balancing, SDLC practices)
Strong JavaScript development skills.
Flexibility to move back and forth between detailed collaboration or independent engineering work.
What’s in it for you?
When you join CoStar Group, you’ll 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, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.
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 Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
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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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing