Homes.com - Android Engineer (Kotlin)

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.

Homes.com is already one of the fastest growing real estate portals in the industry, we are driven to be #1. Just ask Brad Bellflower, Chief Change Officer at Apartments.com. After its acquisition in 2014, Apartments.com quickly turned into the most popular place to find a place. Proven success at the highest level – and we’re doing it again with the new Homes.com.  Homes.com is a CoStar Group company with 20+ years' experience in leading and growing digital marketplaces. We pride ourselves on continually improving, innovating, and setting the standard for property search and marketing experiences. With Homes.com we’re building a brand on the cusp of defining the industry. We’re looking for big thinkers, brave leaders, and creative advertising wizards ready to influence a new age of homebuying within a tried-and-true, award-winning company.

Learn more about Homes.com. 

Our team is seeking an accomplished Android Engineer to join our team in supporting the supporting multiple software products and brands across the organization, such as www.homes.com and www.homesnap.com. You will have a direct impact on highly visible Homes web applications that touch millions of users. You continuously learn emerging technologies and architecture advancements and apply the learnings to improve Homes’ software products.

This position is located in Irvine, CA and offers a schedule of 4 days onsite, 1 day remote.

Responsibilities

• You will develop Android applications that scale to reach millions of users

• You will continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices that can be used to strengthen CoStar’s technology platform and development practices

• Work with the team to create user interface layouts for customers and interfaces to backend web services

• Design and develop systems and libraries that are highly reusable and maintainable

• Understand CoStar’s product architecture and frameworks and come to the table with your ideas

• Collaborate with different teams along with other Android developers to exchange new ideas and improvements

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person college/university

• A track record of commitment to prior employers

• 3+ years’ experience in developing android applications

• You are an expert in everything Android - JAVA, Kotlin, Android SDK, Android Studio, Layout Editor and are always interested in learning more and sharing your skills

• You know all the common Object Oriented Programming and design patterns, MVC, MVVM, Dependency Injection and more.

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• You love mobile applications and know how to make them engaging

• You understand how to turn ideas and code into the perfect customer experience

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 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. 

This position offers a base salary range of $98,000-$164,000, based on relevant skills and experience and includes a generous benefits plan.

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