CoStar

Senior Front-End Engineer

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 and the NASDAQ 100, 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 Front-End Engineer at CoStar Group, you will be working on highly visible applications used by millions of consumers across CoStar Groups subsidiaries. Our product group in Austin, TX is currently seeking a highly skilled Senior Front-End Engineer to join our team in supporting continual growth and development of our industry leading Apartments.com, ApartmentFinder.com, ForRent.com and ApartmentHomeLiving.com web sites. Work together with a ‘startup-minded’ development team delivering innovative web and business applications. Our core tech stack across the team is Ruby on Rails, Python, and JavaScript, with most project code running on Linux. Applications are backed by SQL Server and a rich ecosystem of ETL processes, data caching, and application support architecture.

This position is located in Austin, TX and offers the following hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote per week.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement front-end B2C and B2B experiences using Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript that are fast, compliant with web standards, and flexible across desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms.
• Actively contribute to a culture of professionalism through continuous learning, customer focus, and clear communication.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited, not-for-profit university or college
• Track record of commitment to prior employers
• 5+ years of software development experience in a production environment
• Demonstrated knowledge of JavaScript and HTML5/CSS
• Strong experience with Agile web application Development

Preferred Qualifications And Skills:

• Code management with Git.
• Experience CSS preprocessors such as Sass or Less.
• Understanding of web applications architecture (server topologies, EC2/cloud, application performance improvement strategies, caching, SQL)
• Ability to clearly communicate, and work well within a team.
• Ability to effectively arrange priorities and work independently.

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, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

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 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

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