Senior Engineer

CoStar Group; City of Yarra; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CoStar Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Keystone Squad within the Agent Workflows crew. You will work across a React TypeScript frontend and Ruby on Rails backend, delivering features and infrastructure used daily by thousands of agents across Australia and New Zealand.

You will own design, tests, production monitoring, and help elevate the engineering team. Strong TypeScript and React experience is essential, along with solid Rails experience or willingness to ramp up

Qualifications

• : 5+ years in software engineering with senior-level experience in production systems.
• Strong TypeScript and React: own frontend features end-to-end with confidence
• Solid backend engineering in Ruby on Rails, or comparable framework with willingness to ramp up on Rails
• Deep PostgreSQL experience: query optimisation, indexing, migrations, performance analysis
• Demonstrated ability to design solutions upfront with ADRs or architectural decisions
• Track record of improving team quality through code reviews, mentoring, documentation, or process improvement
• Comprehensive testing practice across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers (Jest, RSpec, Cypress)
• Production observability tooling experience (NewRelic, CloudWatch)
• Strong written communication: PRs, tickets, and technical documentation

Responsibilities

• Own frontend features end-to-end with confidence, from component design to production monitoring.
• Collaborate on Rails backend development and RESTful API design with other squads.
• Write tests to ensure confidence across unit, integration, and end-to-end levels.
• Participate in system design, ADRs, and architectural decisions.
• Improve team quality through code reviews, mentoring, and documentation.
• Ensure production observability and monitoring with appropriate tooling.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Testing (RSpec/Cypress)

AWS

CI/CD

RESTful APIs

Software design

Tools

RSpec

Cypress

Sidekiq

Redis

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Keystone Squad within our Agent Workflows crew. You'll be working across a React TypeScript frontend and Ruby on Rails backend, delivering features and infrastructure used daily by thousands of agents across Australia and New Zealand. Strong TypeScript and React experience is essential. Solid backend engineering and the ability to ramp up quickly on Rails are equally important.

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Keystone Squad within our Agent Workflows crew. You'll be working across a React TypeScript frontend and Ruby on Rails backend, delivering features and infrastructure used daily by thousands of agents across Australia and New Zealand. Strong TypeScript and React experience is essential. Solid backend engineering and the ability to ramp up quickly on Rails are equally important.

At this level, we expect you to own more than your ticket. That means thinking about design before writing code, building tests that give you and your team genuine confidence, monitoring production after you ship, and making the engineers around you better. You are not just a contributor; you are a force multiplier.

What You’ll Do

• Rails internals: Deep understanding of ActiveRecord, complex background job processing (Sidekiq), RESTful API design, and modular architectural patterns including service objects and Rails engines. Strong candidates with experience in comparable frameworks (Python/Django, Elixir/Phoenix) who can ramp up on Rails quickly are equally welcome.


• Database expertise: Query optimisation, complex joins and views, indexing strategies, query plan analysis, schema and data migration strategies; working knowledge of constraints, triggers, and stored procedures


• Security: Rails and web security best practices including OWASP Top 10, data protection, user authentication and authorisation patterns


• Testing: Comprehensive test coverage across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers using RSpec and Cypress; writes tests that build confidence, not just coverage


• Observability: Structured logging, error handling, and APM tooling (NewRelic or equivalent); knows how to read what's happening in production


• Frontend (primary): Deep, production-proven experience with React including hooks, Context API, and state management patterns; TypeScript for type-safe development; performance optimisations including memoization, lazy loading, and code splitting


• Infrastructure: Comfortable with AWS services, CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deployment, Terraform basics, and secrets management best practices.

Essential

• 5+ years in software engineering with meaningful senior-level experience in production systems


• Strong TypeScript and React: you can own frontend features end-to-end with confidence, from component design toproduction monitoring


• Solid backend engineering in Ruby on Rails, or a comparable framework (Python/Django, Elix ir/Phoenix) with a genuine willingness to ramp up on Rails quickly


• Deep PostgreSQL experience: query optimisation, indexing, migrations, and performance analysis


• Demonstrated ability to design solutions upfront, with examples of design docs, ADRs, or architectural decisions you've led


• A track record of improving team quality through code reviews, mentoring, documentation, or process improvement


• Comprehensive testing practice across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers (Jest, RSpec, Cypress or equivalent)


• Comfortable with production observability tooling (NewRelic, CloudWatch, or equivalent)


• Strong written communication: clear PRs, tickets, and technical documentation

Nice to have

• Prior Ruby on Rails experience in production


• Experience with Sidekiq, Redis, and background job architecture


• Familiarity with AWS services (RDS, SQS, S3, ECS) and Terraform


• Experience with feature flagging systems (Flipper) and progressive rollout strategies


• Real estate, proptech, or high-volume B2B SaaS domain experience


• Experience with API integrations across diverse payload formats (XML feeds, CRM integrations, vendor APIs)

What’s In It For You?

Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. As well as having an outstanding working environment, other perks include extra days of annual leave, leadership development programs, LinkedIn Learning, Perkbox discounts and much more!

At CoStar, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds including but not limited to; people of all genders, of all ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and beliefs.

About Domain (part Of The CoStar Group)

Domain is a leading property technology and services marketplace that is home to one of the largest portfolios of property brands in Australia, including the Domain, Allhomes and Commercial Real Estate (CRE) platforms. In 2025, Domain became part of CoStar Group - a global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics, online marketplaces and 3D digital twin technology. We are dedicated to digitising the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights, and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Domain 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 [e-mail] or leave a message on 1300 858 356 and we will get back to you.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing