Team Lead Software Engineering

Job Description

The Team Lead plays a crucial role in supporting and driving our companys strategy by ensuring Technical Excellence and Hands On Delivery for the squad. Works with the technical leadership and stakeholders to define technical requirements shape the platform roadmap and drive value through reliable reusable capabilities. Sets and continuously improves technical standards and delivery patterns for the crew. Ensures platform decisions are made with a product mindset - understanding the needs of internal product teams as customers and their end users as the ultimate beneficiary.

The Team Lead form a technical perspective will be backend focused and will have experience with data analytics at an enterprise level up to millions of users. Provide end-to-end visibility across the platforms technical domains and facilitates collaboration among technical SMEs and consuming product teams. Evaluates technical feasibility and options balancing platform capability needs against delivery effort. Identifies dependencies technical risks and mitigation options across shared services and ensures technical health of platform assets and adherence to a technical debt budget.

What youll do

• Hands-on Delivery: Responsible for effort estimation building and testing squad solutions; leads by example in committing high-quality code to meet squad goals.
• Technical Guidance: Acts as the primary technical point of contact supervising system modifications and ensuring the teams output aligns with established delivery patterns.
• Manage and unblock technical dependencies with other teams where required.
• Accountable to the System Health and Tech debt backlog for their respectively owned service.
• Improve engineering efficiency for their respective team.
• Technical Guidance: Acts as the primary technical point of contact supervising system modifications and ensuring the teams output aligns with established delivery patterns.
• Manage and unblock technical dependencies with other teams where required.
• Accountable to the System Health and Tech debt backlog for their respectively owned service.
• Improve engineering efficiency for their respective team.
• Technical Guidance: Acts as the primary technical point of contact supervising system modifications and ensuring the teams output aligns with established delivery patterns.
• Manage and unblock technical dependencies with other teams where required.
• Accountable to the System Health and Tech debt backlog for their respectively owned service.
• Improve engineering efficiency for their respective team.

Essential

• Bachelors Degree in a relevant technical specialisation
• Experience leading a team of engineers and mentoring more junior engineers
• Strong expertise in C# / .NET 8 and Core for distributed mission-critical backend services
• Experience designing software solutions for scale and high-traffic customer-facing services
• Strong understanding of event-driven and asynchronous integration patterns (e.g. SNS/SQS EventBridge) alongside synchronous (API) integration pub/sub fan-out idempotency retry semantics and dead-letter handling
• Experience designing and operating high-throughput notification messaging or data-pipeline systems (batch and event-driven)
• Experience working with one of the common Cloud Platforms such as AWS Azure and/or GCP and familiarity with Cloud Design patterns
• Experience implementing DevOps practices and CI/CD
• Familiar with relational data persistence (MySQL/Aurora SQL Server) and caching / NoSQL stores (Redis DynamoDB)
• Familiar with Functional and Object Oriented programming TDD BDD and Domain Driven Design
• Technical Guidance: Acts as the primary technical point of contact supervising system modifications and ensuring the teams output aligns with established delivery patterns.
• Manage and unblock technical dependencies with other teams where required.
• Accountable to the System Health and Tech debt backlog for their respectively owned service.
• Improve engineering efficiency for their respective team.

Whats In It For You

Working at CoStar Group meansyoullenjoy 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 otherperksinclude extra days of annual leave leadership development programs LinkedIn LearningPerkboxdiscounts and much more!

At CoStar we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. Weaim at all timesto 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 nationalitiesreligionsand 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) 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 worlds 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).

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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