Senior Software Engineer
Caterpillar
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This role pays less than 63% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$178,175 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $156k versus about $164k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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CoStar Group is the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces, including CoStar, Apartments.com, and LoopNet platforms. Industry: Commercial Real Estate Data & Analytics
CoStar Group currently has 59 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $133,000–$190,000 across 59 roles with salary data.
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The Senior Software Engineer joins the engineering team to design, build, and maintain production applications while developing scalable, cloud-native solutions. The role involves building and operating systems on AWS, creating APIs, and developing backend services. A key focus is leveraging Claude for AI-assisted development, including code generation, refactoring, debugging, and analysis. The successful candidate will participate in system design, code reviews, and technical decision-making to improve application performance, scalability, and reliability. Required technical skills include C# and .NET, AWS services like EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch, along with Git-based workflows. Preferred experience includes Databricks, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK to solve complex real estate information and online marketplace technical problems.
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