Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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, 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 a Senior Technical Manager in Software Engineering, you will be responsible for providing project definition and implementation through hands-on management of software development teams leveraging Agile Scrum development and project management best practices defined by the company. You will undertake the execution of software development projects to achieve the company’s strategic objectives and 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 Typescript, React, NodeJS, .NET Core, SQL Server, and AWS technologies.
• 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 teams 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.
• Work directly with senior leaders in Sales Organizations and Product Leaders to design applications that amaze your customers.
• Apply sound quality management methods, tools and techniques to create and support defect-free application software that meets the needs of the organization
• Act as "Voice of the Customer" when participating in product readiness reviews

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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person university or college
• Full stack development experience
• 2+ years of team leadership experience
• A demonstrable track record of building and launching successful products
• Experience using Typescript, Elastic, C#, SQL Server, and AWS technologies
• Proficiency in Continuous Delivery best practices
• 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.
• Track record of commitment to prior employers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading products throughout the software development life cycle
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React
• 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.
• Familiar with Marketing Eco-Systems such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud or Pardot is a bonus. ​

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 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 Group’s 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: $216,000.00-$261,000.00 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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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing