Senior Engineer

Job Description

Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Keystone Squad within our Agent Workflows crew. Youll be working across a React TypeScript frontend and Ruby on Rails backend delivering features and infrastructure used daily by thousands of agents across Australia and New Zealand. Strong TypeScript and React experience is essential. Solid backend engineering and the ability to ramp up quickly on Rails are equally important.

At this level we expect you to own more than your ticket. That means thinking about design before writing code building tests that give you and your team genuine confidence monitoring production after you ship and making the engineers around you better. You are not just a contributor; you are a force multiplier.

What youll do

• Rails internals: Deep understanding of ActiveRecord complex background job processing (Sidekiq) RESTful API design and modular architectural patterns including service objects and Rails engines. Strong candidates with experience in comparable frameworks (Python/Django Elixir/Phoenix) who can ramp up on Rails quickly are equally welcome.
• Database expertise: Query optimisation complex joins and views indexing strategies query plan analysis schema and data migration strategies; working knowledge of constraints triggers and stored procedures
• Security: Rails and web security best practices including OWASP Top 10 data protection user authentication and authorisation patterns
• Testing: Comprehensive test coverage across unit integration and end-to-end layers using RSpec and Cypress; writes tests that build confidence not just coverage
• Observability: Structured logging error handling and APM tooling (NewRelic or equivalent); knows how to read whats happening in production
• Frontend (primary): Deep production-proven experience with React including hooks Context API and state management patterns; TypeScript for type-safe development; performance optimisations including memoization lazy loading and code splitting
• Infrastructure: Comfortable with AWS services CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deployment Terraform basics and secrets management best practices.

Essential:

• 5 years in software engineering with meaningful senior-level experience in production systems
• Strong TypeScript and React: you can own frontend features end-to-end with confidence from component design toproduction monitoring
• Solid backend engineering in Ruby on Rails or a comparable framework (Python/Django Elix ir/Phoenix) with a genuine willingness to ramp up on Rails quickly
• Deep PostgreSQL experience: query optimisation indexing migrations and performance analysis
• Demonstrated ability to design solutions upfront with examples of design docs ADRs or architectural decisions youve led
• A track record of improving team quality through code reviews mentoring documentation or process improvement
• Comprehensive testing practice across unit integration and end-to-end layers (Jest RSpec Cypress or equivalent)
• Comfortable with production observability tooling (NewRelic CloudWatch or equivalent)
• Strong written communication: clear PRs tickets and technical documentation

Nice to have

• Prior Ruby on Rails experience in production
• Experience with Sidekiq Redis and background job architecture
• Familiarity with AWS services (RDS SQS S3 ECS) and Terraform
• Experience with feature flagging systems (Flipper) and progressive rollout strategies
• Real estate proptech or high-volume B2B SaaS domain experience
• Experience with API integrations across diverse payload formats (XML feeds CRM integrations vendor APIs)

Whats In It For You

Working at CoStar Group meansyoullenjoy 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 otherperksinclude extra days of annual leave leadership development programs LinkedIn LearningPerkboxdiscounts and much more!

At CoStar we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. Weaim at all timesto 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 nationalitiesreligionsand 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) 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 worlds 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 were 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 or leave a message onand 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