Job Description
The Manager, Engineering 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.
What you’ll do
- 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 Senior Director of Engineering, Lead and Principal Engineers to shape technical
- direction and architectural evolution.
- Champions best practices and continuous improvement across teams.
- Hands on the tool’s technical contributor, actively contributing to the code as well as well as
- developing and leading the team.
- Delivery & Planning
- People Leadership and Collaboration
- Stakeholder Management
- 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:
- Full stack hands on expertise in C#/.Net backend and React/Next.js/Typescript front end web
- technology
- 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.
Nice to have
- 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
What’s In It For You?
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
