Team Lead Software Engineering
Job Description
The Team Lead plays a crucial role in supporting and driving our company's 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 platform's 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 you’ll 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 team's 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 team's 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 team's 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
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical specialisation
- Experience leading a team of engineers and mentoring more junior engineers
- Strong expertise in C# / .NET 8 and ASP.NET 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 team's 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.
What’s In It For You?
Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy 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, other perks include extra days of annual leave, leadership development programs, LinkedIn Learning, Perkbox discounts 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 including but not limited to; people of all genders, of all ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and 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) platforms. In 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 world’s 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).
We are committed to providing an equitable recruitment process for people with disability. If you require adjustments during the process we’re here to support. If you wish to receive this job advertisement in an accessible format, or have a confidential chat about workplace adjustments, please contact our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team at [email protected] or leave a message on 1300 858 356 and we will get back to you.
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing
