Apartments.com- Senior Software Engineer (Ruby) - Austin, TX

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.   

Apartments.com 

Apartments.com is the nation’s #1 rental marketplace for owners, property managers and consumers. Apartments.com is the network that millions of renters rely on every year to find their new place, is continuing to grow our industry-leading sales force.  We provide apartment Property Managers and Owners with a platform to market their property listings and the industry’s most comprehensive virtual tools to attract the highest-quality renters.  The Apartments.com Network includes Apartments.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentFinder.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, and eight other leading rental sites. Our suite of services includes digital advertising, social and reputation management, and market analytic solutions which delivers innovative tools for our customers.

Learn more about Apartments.com. 

Our Apartments.com team in Austin, TX is currently seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join us in supporting continual growth and development of our industry leading websites. Work together with a ‘startup-minded’ development team delivering innovative web and business applications. Work is conducted using Ruby on Rails, C#, 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 role will be based in our Austin, TX office, offering a schedule of Monday-Thursday in office and the option to work from home on Friday.

Responsibilities

• Development of website and software using the above-mentioned technologies.
• Building applications with innovative use of open-source software.
• Best-practice software engineering for performance, maintainability, and stability.
• Design and development of AJAX components.
• Competence with Git or similar version control system and experience with SDLC.
• Ability to work well in a team environment.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit university or college.
• 5+ years of web development experience on any platform.
• 3+ years of experience using a language such as Ruby on Rails, C#, Python, or PHP.
• Competence on a Linux development stack.
• Experience using cloud components/Amazon EC2.
• Demonstrated competence with T-SQL/general SQL.
• Demonstrated creativity and problem solving.
• Proficiency with JavaScript
• A track record of commitment to prior employers.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Strong opinions about software design and architecture
• Ability to visualize and explain complex ideas and build agreement around those ideas with an experienced technical team.
• High level proficiency in web applications development.
• Strong knowledge of technical ecosystems & architecture (dev-ops, caching strategies, networking, performance optimization, network topologies, load balancing, SDLC practices)
• Strong JavaScript development skills.
• Flexibility to move back and forth between detailed collaboration or independent engineering work.

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, and tuition reimbursement.

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