Engineering Manager
Job Description
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.
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. Together, Domain and CoStar Group is dedicated to digitising the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights, and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
The Engineering Manager plays a pivotal role in delivering Domain’s strategy by building and leading high-performing engineering teams that create reliable, scalable, and high-quality software solutions aligned to our business and customer goals.
This role combines people leadership, delivery leadership, and strong technical capability. The Manager, Engineering is accountable for developing engineering capability, shaping technical direction in partnership with the director of Engineering and Principal Engineers and ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery across their area of ownership.
The Manager, Engineering supports Domain’s strategy by:
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Working with Product and Design to guide delivery, prioritisation, and roadmap execution
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Coaching and developing engineers and emerging leaders
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Providing hands-on technical leadership where it adds the most value (e.g., complex changes, design reviews, critical code reviews)
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Championing engineering best practices, quality, security, and system health
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Shaping technical implementation and architectural direction in partnership with Principal & Lead Engineers
The Audience Amplification Platform team is responsible for Domain Group’s digital marketing innovation, powering the next generation of property advertising beyond our own platforms. We are the engine behind Domain’s social platform products. Think high-impact campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, Google, and other leading digital channels. Our mission is to make every campaign smarter, more transparent and more effective for our customers.
Responsibilities:
Technical Excellence and Innovation
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Accountable for the technical quality, reliability, scalability, and security of owned systems.
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Sets and upholds engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.
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Ensures technical debt and system health are visible, prioritised, and actively managed.
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Partners with Director of Engineering, Lead and Principal Engineers to shape technical direction and architectural evolution.
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Champions best practices and continuous improvement across teams.
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Represents their domain in cross-organisation engineering forums
Delivery & Planning
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Accountable for predictable, high-quality delivery across owned squads.
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Partners with Product and Design on short- and long-term roadmap planning.
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Ensures effective planning, prioritisation, and execution practices are in place.
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Manages capacity, workforce planning, and cross-team dependencies.
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Oversees major feature delivery, release coordination, and post-release learnings.
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Ensures delivery trade-offs (speed vs quality vs tech investment) are transparent and well-managed.
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Ensures effective team rituals and planning processes are operating effectively.
People Leadership and Collaboration
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Provides formal people leadership including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development.
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Builds a high-performing team culture grounded in ownership, psychological safety, and accountability.
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Develops engineering capability and succession within the team.
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Coaches engineers in solution design and technical excellence.
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Ensures strong alignment between engineering, product, and business outcomes.
Stakeholder Management
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Serves as the primary technology partner to Product and Design within the triad.
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Communicates delivery progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders.
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Aligns technical strategy with business objectives and organisational priorities.
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Proactively manages cross-team dependencies and stakeholder expectations.
Operations
- Accountable for system reliability and operational excellence across owned services.
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Ensures appropriate incident management, learning, and preventative improvements.
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Participates in on-call rotations where appropriate while ensuring sustainable operational practices.
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Drives initiatives that reduce incidents and improve long-term system resilience.
Essential:
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Strong hands-on experience in C# / .NET and modern full stack development practices
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Experience in designing and evolving scalable, reliable software systems in modern cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
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Experience reviewing code and guiding solution design in distributed systems environments.
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Experience operating in distributed systems environments, including microservices, synchronous (API) and asynchronous (messaging) integration patterns.
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Strong understanding of relational and non-relational data models and cloud design patterns.
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Experience implementing DevOps best practices, CI/CD, automation, observability, and shift-left testing.
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Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams and being accountable for delivery outcomes
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Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers across different levels of seniority
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Experience balancing product delivery, technical investment, and system health
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Evidence of data-informed decision making in engineering and delivery contexts
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Experience working closely with Product and Design to shape roadmaps and prioritisation.
Highly regarded:
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Social Media APIs integration i.e. Meta and Google
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Experience leading platform modernisation or transformation initiatives
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Applied knowledge of TDD, BDD, Domain-Driven Design, and modern application security practice
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing
