Team Lead, Software Engineering - Full-Stack

CoStar Group, Inc.; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) retirement plan with matching

Employee stock purchase plan

On-site fitness center

Commuter and parking benefits

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

On-site amenities and snacks

Job summary

CoStar Group, Inc. in Richmond, VA seeks a Team Lead, Software Engineering to guide a full-stack team responsible for a portfolio of financial web applications used by internal sales, finance and customer service. The role emphasizes architecture, delivery and reliability in a SOX‑facing environment.

You will stay hands-on, mentor engineers and drive best practices across testing, CI/CD and security while coordinating with partner teams. Hybrid in-office in Richmond with Friday work‑from‑home.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited college or university.
• 5+ years building web apps and 3+ years in large distributed, API-driven systems.
• Hands-on React with server-side Node.js and C#/.NET.
• Advanced SQL Server and T-SQL; strong data quality controls.
• Experience owning team delivery, planning, and stakeholder communication.
• Production systems ownership including on-call and incident response.
• Experience with cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP) and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a full-stack engineering team with hiring and coaching.
• Own end-to-end delivery, scope, technical direction and quality.
• Coordinate with product, finance, sales and customer service stakeholders.
• Own architecture across full stack: frontend + backend-for-frontend + APIs + data layer.
• Contribute hands-on to design and implementation; review code and designs.
• Translate regulatory requirements into scoped engineering work.
• Production support, monitoring, incident response and reliability.
• Maintain high engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, observability and security.

Skills

Experience building web applications

React

Node.js

C# / .NET

SQL Server / T-SQL

API‑driven systems

Delivery ownership / leadership

CI/CD

Cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP)

AI‑assisted development tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

React

Node.js

C# / .NET

SQL Server

Azure / AWS / GCP

Kafka / RabbitMQ

Redis / OpenSearch

Datadog / Application Insights

Job description

Team Lead, Software Engineering - Full-Stack

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.

Role Description

We are seeking a Team Lead, Software Engineering to lead the team that builds and maintains our portfolio of financial web applications in the finance tech organization. These applications give our internal sales, finance and customer service teams a clear, trustworthy view of a customer’s financial relationship with CoStar — what they subscribe to, what they have been billed, and where their account stands — along with the tools to act on it, from servicing subscription changes to resolving billing issues and responding to customer requests. These systems sit directly in the path of CoStar’s revenue operations and are subject to audit and SOX controls, so correctness, traceability and reliability matter as much as speed of delivery. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will manage and grow the team, own its deliverables and its coordination with partner teams, and stay directly involved in design and implementation. You will set the bar for engineering practices through your own work as much as through review and mentorship, and you will be accountable for the reliability of what the team runs in production. This position is in Richmond, VA and has a work schedule of Monday through Thursday in-office and Friday work from home.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of full stack engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management and career development.
• Own the team’s deliverables end to end, from scope and technical direction through quality and on-time delivery.
• Plan and coordinate with other engineering teams, product management and business stakeholders across finance, sales and customer service, setting realistic commitments and communicating progress, risks and tradeoffs.
• Own the architecture of the team’s systems across the full stack, balancing micro‑frontend web application design with the backend‑for‑frontend layer, REST APIs and the relational data layer they depend on.
• Stay hands‑on, contributing directly to design and implementation across the stack, and participating in design and code reviews.
• Translate business, audit and regulatory requirements into well‑scoped, testable engineering work, and keep stakeholders honest about tradeoffs.
• Be accountable for production support of the team’s systems, including monitoring, alerting, incident response and reliability.
• Hold a high bar for engineering practices and standards across testing, code quality, CI/CD, documentation, observability and security.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university.
• Track record of commitment to prior employers.
• 5+ years’ experience building web applications and the services and databases behind them, including 3+ years building large distributed, API‑driven systems.
• Demonstrated experience owning delivery for a team, including planning, prioritization, and coordination with product management and business stakeholders, and excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Hands‑on proficiency building production React applications, together with server‑side development in Node.js and C# / .NET.
• Advanced SQL Server and T‑SQL skills, including stored procedure development and query performance tuning, along with the data quality, validation and reconciliation controls that financial data requires.
• Experience designing complete applications rather than individual features — API contract design, versioning and backward compatibility, clear separation of concerns and consistent use of established design patterns.
• Track record of accountability for production systems, including on‑call ownership, incident response and driving down operational burden, supported by version control and CI/CD in a major cloud environment (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Experience with agentic engineering and AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate software delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with micro‑frontend architecture and independently deployable frontend applications (Web Components / HTML custom elements, module federation, or equivalent), and with maintaining a shared component library and consistent design standards across them.
• Payments, billing or subscription management systems experience, or experience with applications subject to audit and SOX controls.
• Experience integrating with third‑party billing, payments or collections platforms.
• Familiarity with event‑driven and message‑based integration (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Azure Service Bus), caching with Redis, search with Elastic or OpenSearch, and Azure or AWS services including Functions, S3, Lambda and Step Functions.
• Observability and monitoring tooling such as Datadog, Kibana or Application Insights.
• Demonstrated use of AI‑assisted development practices (Claude Code or similar) to accelerate delivery, code generation and review along with root‑cause analysis.

What’s in it for you?

• 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: $154,000- $203,000 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.

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

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

CoStar Group is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access www.costargroup.com/careers as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to [e-mail].

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 37 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable products and services. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry and for our customers. 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.

CoStar Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

CoStar Group is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access www.costargroup.com/careers as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to [e-mail].