Engineering Manager

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

• Accountable for the technical quality, reliability, scalability, and security of owned systems.
• Sets and upholds engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Ensures technical debt and system health are visible, prioritised, and actively managed.
• Partners with Director of Engineering, Lead and Principal Engineers to shape technical direction and architectural evolution.
• Champions best practices and continuous improvement across teams.
• Represents their domain in cross-organisation engineering forums

Delivery & Planning

• Accountable for predictable, high-quality delivery across owned squads.
• Partners with Product and Design on short- and long-term roadmap planning.
• Ensures effective planning, prioritisation, and execution practices are in place.
• Manages capacity, workforce planning, and cross-team dependencies.
• Oversees major feature delivery, release coordination, and post-release learnings.
• Ensures delivery trade-offs (speed vs quality vs tech investment) are transparent and well-managed.
• Ensures effective team rituals and planning processes are operating effectively.

People Leadership and Collaboration

• Provides formal people leadership including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development.
• Builds a high-performing team culture grounded in ownership, psychological safety, and accountability.
• Develops engineering capability and succession within the team.
• Coaches engineers in solution design and technical excellence.
• Ensures strong alignment between engineering, product, and business outcomes.

Stakeholder Management

• Serves as the primary technology partner to Product and Design within the triad.
• Communicates delivery progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders.
• Aligns technical strategy with business objectives and organisational priorities.
• Proactively manages cross-team dependencies and stakeholder expectations.

Operations

• Accountable for system reliability and operational excellence across owned services.
• Ensures appropriate incident management, learning, and preventative improvements.
• Participates in on-call rotations where appropriate while ensuring sustainable operational practices.
• Drives initiatives that reduce incidents and improve long-term system resilience.

Essential:

• Strong hands-on experience in C# / .NET and modern full stack development practices
• Experience in designing and evolving scalable, reliable software systems in modern cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
• Experience reviewing code and guiding solution design in distributed systems environments.
• Experience operating in distributed systems environments, including microservices, synchronous (API) and asynchronous (messaging) integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of relational and non-relational data models and cloud design patterns.
• Experience implementing DevOps best practices, CI/CD, automation, observability, and shift-left testing.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams and being accountable for delivery outcomes
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers across different levels of seniority
• Experience balancing product delivery, technical investment, and system health
• Evidence of data-informed decision making in engineering and delivery contexts
• Experience working closely with Product and Design to shape roadmaps and prioritisation.

Highly regarded:

• Social Media APIs integration i.e. Meta and Google
• Experience leading platform modernisation or transformation initiatives
• 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