Job Description

COSTAR GROUP LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - LONDON

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 worlds 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. Weve 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.

CoStar is the global leader in commercial real estate information analytics and news. Commercial Real Estate industry professionals around the globe use CoStar to access the most comprehensive data to make decisions with confidence. CoStar delivers immediate verified commercial real estate information on over 5.9 million properties across every more about CoStar.

RESPONSIBILITES

• Deeply understand what drives the business for which you are building software. We firmly believe that what separates a good developer from a great one is a deep understanding of the business that they are supporting.

• Hands-on involvement in design architecture and development activities in the creation of applications ranging the entirety of the Research Process

• Work on big distributed API-driven systems that operate on massive amounts of data in high transaction volume applications for tens of thousands of users while producing bullet-proof code that is robust efficient and maintainable; our primary tools are C# .NET Framework Python JSON SQL Server AWS and Databricks.

• Collaborate with your QA resources to ensure that the software you deliver is of the highest quality. (Our customers are not beta testers.)

• Act as a key member of the product launch team and work closely to DevOps to resolve operational issues.

• Deliver work products that meet specifications are free of defects and have optimal performance.

• Take an active role in mentoring other developers

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.

• A track record of commitment to prior employers.

• 5 years development (C#) development experience including cross-platform communication technologies such as Web API.

• 3 years of experience with SQL Server writing SQL queries data matching/cleansing/enriching as well as ETL/data pipeline engineering.

• A demonstrable track record of building and launching successful products that leverage terabytes of data.

• Ability to analyse technical requirements and design new architectures data models and ETL strategies.

• Expertise in database design complex T-SQL programming performance tuning and index analysis.

• Hands-on experience with cloud-based relational and non-relational databases.

• Facilitate discussions among developers to exchange ideas and introduce innovative technologies.

• Evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities trends and best practices that can be leveraged to strengthen CoStars technology platform and development practices.

• Experience Core. Python Jupyter Notebook AWS and NoSQL databases.

• Experience with Databricks and Lakehouse architecture

WHATS IN IT FOR YOU

Working at CoStar Group means youll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment based in the Blue Fin or one of our key UK-wide hubs. Other perks include full private medical cover dental cover Life Assurance and member rewards 28 days annual leave a competitive pension season ticket loans enhanced maternity and paternity pay 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 men and women people of all ages sexual orientations nationalities religions and beliefs. However we particularly encourage applications from women disabled and Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as these groups are underrepresented throughout the commercial real estate industry

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