Vice President - Software Engineering

LoopNet - Vice President, Software Engineering

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Job Description

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Overview

CoStar Group 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. 

LoopNet, the most popular place to find a space, is the #1 global commercial real estate marketplace. With more than 12 million global unique monthly visitors, LoopNet provides brokers, buyers and sellers with what they need to meet and make deals.  LoopNet has established itself as the most effective and far-reaching digital marketplace for commercial real estate owners and brokers.   We are not done yet!   We continue to focus on driving expansion by increasing market share in the US and abroad, continuously innovating and enhancing the product and growing a powerhouse global team to reach our goals. 

Learn more about LoopNet. 

As the VP of Software Development for LoopNet, you will be responsible for leading all development and delivery of software. Your teams will design, develop, test, debug and implement operating systems components, software tools, and utilities; as well as determine systems software design requirements in addition to ensuring that system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to increase efficiency. The selected candidate will help transition from current to large new scale systems software engineering policies, standards and procedures at CoStar.

You will work directly with the CEO, CFO, CTO, Senior Product Leadership to define the processes and technology required to support our growing business. In addition, you will provide hands on coaching and development to a team of 80+ software developers.

This role is located in our Irvine, CA office and has a schedule of 4 days on-site and 1 day work from home.  

Responsibilities

• Act as a player coach with 10+ years of industry experience managing multiple project development teams working on multiple concurrent projects

• Coordinate the activities and deliverables across 10-15 teams while resolving issues and ensuring appropriate priorities

• Mentor and manage Technical Managers in the normal execution of their responsibilities.

• Interact regularly with technology and business executives

• Conduct ongoing and in depth needs analysis (approximately 20% of total time) with client to obtain detailed business requirements

• Successfully implement software development projects to specification and within scheduled timelines and budget parameters.  Ensure proper software development practices are followed and provide guidance and/or assistance when necessary

• Provide status reports and feedback to Business Management

• Act as release manager to ensure product components are released for production deployment as tested

• Work with internal and external clients to document project success criteria

• Drive continuous improvement within Scrum team by focusing on engineering excellence

• Work with recruiting to identify, hire and onboard top industry talent

• Manage up or out any team members that are performing below expectation of position.

• Coach, motivate, train and retain “A Players”

• Develop and maintain an in-depth working knowledge of the CRE Industry and CoStar’s position in the Commercial Real Estate market

• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStar’s technology platform and development practices

• Act as "Voice of the Customer" when participating in product readiness reviews

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required from an accredited, not for profit, university or college

• A track record of commitment to prior employers

• 10+ years of experience leading large engineering teams focused on building software web tools.

• Proven ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams while thriving in a fast-paced growth tech environment.

• Demonstrated ability to build strong internal relationships and managing key stakeholders, including at the CEO level.

• Experience architecting, building, and operating well architected, high-availability, cloud-based software systems, including full stack product platforms (UIs, APIs, Data, etc.)

• Hands-on development experience with front end development technologies (we use JavaScript/TypeScript, Angular, etc.) and/or API / platform development (we use C#). Active hands-on development skills are not needed, but knowledge is essential.

• Project leadership on a large, multi-team, multi-discipline software product

• Experience managing and coaching managers and senior engineers

• Strong sense of ownership and a track record of shipping and getting things done

• Attention to detail and an ability to deeply learn complex topics and problems

• Excellent team building, negotiation and consensus building abilities

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 Employee Resource Groups

• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks 

This position offers a base salary range of $250,000 – $440,000, based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous bonus and benefits plan

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply.  However, please note that CoStar 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