Senior Engineer

Company 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.

About Domain:

Domain is a leading property marketplace reaching 7 million Australians each month, making it one of the country's most recognised and trusted property platforms. Domain operates the Allhomes and CRE 'commercial real estate' platforms and provides product and solutions to consumers, agents, government and enterprise to digitise every step of the property journey. Learn more about Domain:

About the Role:

The role of a Senior Engineer is pivotal in supporting the delivery of our Domain Strategy by driving innovation and ensuring the development of high-quality software solutions. By leveraging advanced technical skills and a deep understanding of software engineering principles, the Senior Engineer contributes to the creation of robust, scalable, and efficient applications that align with our strategic goals. This role involves not only writing and reviewing code but also architecting solutions that meet both current and future business needs, ensuring Software Solutions supports the overall Domain vision.

In addition to technical expertise, the Senior Engineer plays a crucial role in mentoring and guiding junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and Engineering excellence. By leading by example and providing support, this role helps build a strong, cohesive team capable of tackling complex challenges and delivering high-quality software products. The Senior Engineer also collaborates closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, to ensure that software solutions are aligned with customer value and business needs.

At Domain, we're transforming the property technology landscape in Australia, and at the heart of this transformation is our innovative Skylight Crew. Central to our overarching strategy, the Skylight Crew is driving products that will redefine industry standards and enhance the experiences of real estate professionals across Australia.

This squad is focused on Skylight's newest capabilities. Building a pipeline for our agents to find their next listing, as well as giving principals first hand insights into how their agency is performing on Domain.

Why Join Us:

We're the right size business for you to make a real impact, with a workplace culture where you can be you. Perks of the role include:

• Our much-loved approach to flexible hybrid working;

• Mentoring and leadership programs, with access to Learning & Development tools;

• First rate parental leave and support for working parents;

• Regular social events including our famous Innovation Days.

In a typical day you can expect:
Technical Excellence and Innovation

• Build high quality scalable, reliable and performant solutions in collaboration with other engineers and tech leads.

• Keep abreast of latest trends in technology and software engineering. Use responsible engineering principles to understand when and how to apply those same trends.

• Champion and adopt Engineering best practices.

• Participate in and contribute to cross-domain technology forums such as Architecture Guild and Tech Leadership Guild.

• Contribute to the System Health and Tech debt backlog for their respectively owned service.

• Champion engineering efficiency for their respective team and services.

• Collaborate with Lead Engineers and Tech Leads on improving process and system change.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Mentor more Junior Engineers in Solution design and building high quality solutions.

• Build a deep understanding of their product and business domain.

• Collaborate with Product Managers to ensure that solutions aligned with business and customer needs

Operations

• Be on-call and respond to incidents when raised.

• Continuously find ways to improve process and quality of software to reduce incidents over time.

• Maintain, update and patch systems as and when required.

Our Ideal Person:

Experience

• Experience designing software solutions for scale

• Experience with either highly trafficked customer-facing websites and/or complex mobile apps

• Experience working with Tech leads to optimise engineering practices and processes

• Experience working with one of the common Cloud Platforms such as AWS, Azure, and/or GCP

• Experience implementing DevOps practices and CI/CD

• Experience working in Agile environments

• Experience mentoring more junior engineers

• Experience working in cross functional teams (Product, Design and Tech)

• Experience with Microservices architecture

• Experience with relational and non-relational DBs

Technical Skills

• Deep expertise in at least one programming language and tech stack (preferably React/TypeScript or Java)
• Understands shift-left testing and how to implement it in practice
• Familiar with Functional and Object Oriented programming
• Familiar with Document and Relational data persistence models
• Familiar with Cloud Design patterns
• Familiar with TDD, BDD and Domain Driven design
• Familiar with synchronous (API) and async (Messaging) integration patterns
• Familiar with modern Application Security Practices (OWASP)
• [BONUS] Experience with GraphQL
• [BONUS] Experience with API and Schema Design
• [BONUS] Experience with event-driven architectures and stream processing systems, particularly Kafka and Flink.

Education and Certifications

• Applied Domain Driven Design, TDD and/or BDD at previous companies

• [BONUS] AWS (or other Cloud Platform) Certification

• Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering related field

What's Next?

We'll give your application the thoughtful attention it deserves and get back to you as soon as possible. If there's a match, one of our recruitment consultants will reach out-so keep your phone handy We're genuinely excited about the chance to work together and make a meaningful impact.

Apply now to help us drive progress in diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are devoted to fostering a diverse and supportive work environment and warmly welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. If you have any accessibility needs or require accommodations during the application process, please let us know, and we will ensure you receive the support you need.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Domain Group is enthusiastically and unapologetically committed to fostering an equitable, inclusive work culture which reflects our customers and communities. We are proactively looking for candidates from all lived experiences, including people with disability, and people of all ages, ethnicities, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples), faiths, sexual orientations, and gender identities (including trans and non-binary people).

We are committed to providing an equitable recruitment process for people with disability. If you require adjustments during the process we're here to support. If you wish to receive this job advertisement in an accessible format, or have a confidential chat about workplace adjustments, please contact our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team at or leave a message on and we will get back to you.