Technical Lead

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: https://www.domain.com.au/group/.  

About the Role: 

• Provides end-to-end visibility across various technical domains and facilitates collaboration among technical SMEs.
• Evaluates technical feasibility and options for the solution.
• Helps identify low-level dependencies, technical risks, and mitigation options and ensures technical health of the asset and adherence to a technical debt budget.
• Works with the Product Owner to deliver product roadmap and drive value using technology.
• Work closely with the Product Owner, Business Analyst and/or Designer to establish technical requirements and lead the technical direction of the work.
• The role Involves setting (and continuously improving) technical standards and relevant patterns for software delivery.
• Ensures smooth running of the delivery team, focused on quality and delivery excellence.
• Provides leadership to developers on principles and practices, ensures consistency in approach. Leads by example in building quality in, aligned with product vision and value.

Workflow Crew:
The Workflow Crew's mission is to empower real estate agents by providing them with a seamless and integrated suite of SaaS products, including Pricefinder, Real Time Agent, and Homepass. We aim to deliver the best possible user experience by creating powerful, modern tools that save agents time and allow them to focus on what matters most—serving their clients. Through continuous innovation, including the development of AI-driven features and insights, our goal is to become an indispensable partner in the success of every agent.

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 to:   

• Collaborate with Product and Design on team roadmap and priorities
• Execute and deliver on the roadmap in collaboration with Product and Design
• Direct line management for all the engineers in the squad.
• Drive work and epic breakdown for effective estimation, capacity planning and delivery
• Manage and unblock technical dependencies with other teams where required
• Champion and adopt Engineering best practices
• Accountable to the System Health and Tech debt backlog for their respectively owned service
• Improve engineering efficiency for their respective team
• Accountable to reporting on delivery metrics for their respective team
• Mentor and coach software engineers in progressive engineering practices
• Participate in and contribute to cross domain technology forums such as Architecture Guild and
• Tech Leadership Guild 1
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers and Architects to drive Solution Design for large initiatives
• Be an ambassador for the Engineering brand internally and externally
• Elevate and escalate to tech leaders where large investment in tech debt and tech initiatives is required
• Build a deep understanding of their product and business domain
• Hands-on where necessary with a focus on initiatives that will help 10x the team
• Performs code reviews where necessary
• Facilitate team ceremonies where necessary

Our Ideal Person: 

ESSENTIALS: 

• Experience designing software solutions for scale 
• Experience with either high traffic customer facing websites and/or complex mobile apps
• Experience optimising engineering practices and processes
• Evidence of data informed decision making
• 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 leading a team of engineers
• Experience working in triads (Product, Design and Tech)
• Deep expertise in at least one programming language and tech stack
• 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)
• Experience with React Native and/or TypeScript, Javascript, Node.js, Next.js and React.js
• Experience with distributed applications in the cloud
• Highly regarded experience: MongoDB

 
NICE TO HAVES: 

• Applied Domain Driven Design, TDD and/or BDD at previous companies
• 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 [email protected] or leave a message on 1300 858 356 and we will get back to you.