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Included in the S&P 500 Index, 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.\nWe 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 uniqueand valuable offerings to our customers. We’vecontinually 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 forour customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.\nWe areseeking a Lead Software Engineer tojoinour Web Enterprise team, responsible for designing, building, and evolving the software platforms that support our proprietary CRM ecosystem and enterprise applications across Homes.com, CoStar, Apartments.com, LoopNet, and other industry-leading brands.\nThis role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, architecting scalable systems, and driving engineering innovation through the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The successful candidate will combine deep software engineering expertisewith a passion for leveragingAI-powered development and testing tools to improve software quality, developer productivity, and delivery speed.\nAs a technical expert, you will influence architecture, establishengineering best practices, and help drive the adoption of AI-assisted software development, intelligent automation, and modern test engineering methodologies.\nCoStar 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 demonstratea willingness to learn, adopt, and apply AI technologies responsibly to solve complex business and engineering challenges.\nThis position is located inRichmond, VA and is in office Monday through Thursday with work from home on Friday.\nResponsibilities\nProvide technical leadership, architectural direction, and deliveryownership for a portfolio of software products and platforms.\n\nChampion AI-assisted software development practices that improve developer productivity, code quality, platform reliability, and engineering efficiency.\n\nLeverage AI-powered observability, monitoring, anomaly detection, and automation capabilities to improve system resiliency, incident response, and customer experience.\n\nIdentifyand implement intelligent solutions that streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and accelerate business outcomes.\n\nLead the design, development, and governance of AI-powered solutions, including agents, tools, skills, copilots, and workflow automations that enhance internal operations and customer-facing products.\n\nEstablish and enforce engineering and testing best practices related to software quality, security, scalability, observability, and operational excellence.\n\nPromote responsible AI adoption by ensuring solutions meet established security, privacy, compliance, governance, and quality standards.\n\nApply modern quality management practices to deliver reliable, maintainable, and defect-resistant software solutions.\n\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field from an accredited, not for profit, in-person university or college.\n\nTrack recordof commitment to prior employers.\n\n7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack application development.\n\nProven experience delivering and scaling successful software products throughout the software development lifecycle.\n\nHands-on experience with TypeScript, C#, .NET, React, SQL Server, Elasticsearch, AWS, and modern cloud-native development practices.\n\nStrong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, API design, and scalable application development.\n\nExperience evaluating, adopting, or developing AI-powered solutions and applications.\n\nFamiliarity with large language models (LLMs), agent frameworks, AI orchestration tools, and AI-assisted development platforms.\n\nUnderstanding ofobservability, monitoring, telemetry analysis, automated incident detection, and operational intelligence platforms.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively engage engineers, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with a proven ability to leverageAI, technical expertise, and innovative thinking to solve complex business challenges and deliver scalable solutions.\n\nExperience designing and developing automated testing platforms, quality engineering frameworks, or developer productivity solutions that accelerate software delivery, improve reliability, and reduce operational overhead.\n\nExperience developing, deploying, or managing AI-powered applications, copilots, agents, intelligent search experiences, or workflow automation platforms.\n\nExperience implementing AI-enabled data quality solutions, including enrichment, deduplication, classification, entity resolution, anomaly detection, and governance.\n\nExperience operatinglarge-scale cloud-native applications in AWS environments.\n\nWhat’sin it for you?\nWhen you join CoStar Group, you’llexperience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.\nWe offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training and tuition reimbursement.\nOur benefits package includes (but is not limited to):\nComprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug\n\nLife, legal, and supplementary insurance\n\nVirtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family\n\nCommuter and parking benefits\n\n401(K) retirement planwith matching contributions\n\nEmployee stock purchase plan\n\nPaid time off\n\nTuition reimbursement\n\nOn-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes\n\nAccess to CoStar Group’s Employee Resource Groups\n\nComplimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks\n\nThe 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.\nBase Compensation: $152,000.00-$202,000.00 Annually\nWe welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. 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