Remote Engineering Team Lead Jobs
Remote Engineering Team Lead jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms and distributed engineering teams in sectors like software, fintech, and cloud infrastructure. Employers hiring remotely right now include Sangoma, CoStar, and ASML. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Job Description
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, 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.
As a Team Lead in Software Engineering, you will be responsible for providing project definition and implementation through hands-on management of multiple software development teams leveraging Agile Scrum development and project management best practices defined by the company. You will undertake the execution of software development projects to achieve the company’s strategic objectives and must work closely with Product Leaders & other managers.
CoStar is investing heavily in artificial intelligence to accelerate software delivery, improve platform observability, automate research and business workflows, enhance product experiences through intelligent agents and skills, and improve data quality across enterprise systems. Successful candidates will demonstrate a willingness to learn, adopt, and apply AI technologies responsibly to solve complex business and engineering challenges.
This position is located in Richmond, VA and offers a schedule of Monday to Thursday in office and the option to work from home on Friday.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for architecture, project ownership, and team leadership.
- Lead team(s) of talented software developers in building applications and platforms using modern object oriented programming languages.
- Act as a player-coach, who can mentor & coach highly productive team members.
- Promote can-do attitude, engineering mindset and collaboration as fundamental team values.
- Drive continuous improvement by focusing on engineering excellence.
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted software development practices to improve developer productivity, code quality, platform reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Leverage AI-powered monitoring, anomaly detection, replayability, and observability capabilities to improve system resiliency, incident response, root cause analysis, and customer experience.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to identify opportunities for intelligent processes that reduce manual effort, accelerate sales workflows, and improve operational effectiveness across CoStar platforms.
- Lead a team in designing, implementing, and governing AI-powered solutions including skills, agents, tools, and workflow automations that enhance both internal productivity and customer-facing products.
- Promote responsible AI adoption by ensuring solutions adhere to security, privacy, governance, and quality standards.
- Manage and coordinate projects within teams and across departments.
- Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices that can be leveraged to strength CoStar’s technology platform and develop practices
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person university or college
- Track record of commitment to prior employers
- 5+ years’ experience in web development and database technologies
- 3+ years’ experience building large distributed, API-driven systems
- Strong understanding of OOP and software design patterns
- Experience using TypeScript, C#, SQL Server, AWS technologies, or similar tools
- Experience leading a technical team, working through complex requirements and offering relevant, timely technical solutions.
- Understanding AI technologies and has hands on experience in AI adoption and development.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; Must be able to communicate at a level appropriate to the audience (direct reports, peers and senior management)
- Ability to motivate and build high performance software development teams.
- Familiarity with modern AI platforms, large language models (LLMs), agent orchestration frameworks, or AI-assisted development tools.
- Understanding of observability, monitoring, replayability, telemetry analysis, and automated incident detection platforms.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Docker and container orchestration a plus.
- Experience building AI features with Bedrock or Azure
- Experience with OpenSearch is a plus
- Experience with React for frontend development is a plus
- Other technology areas we lean into; AWS S3, Lambda, SQS, Kafka, and Redis
- Experience developing or managing AI-powered applications, agents, tools, search experiences, or intelligent automation platforms.
- Experience leveraging AI to improve software engineering productivity, operational monitoring, research workflows, and data stewardship.
- Experience implementing AI-assisted data quality solutions including deduplication, enrichment, classification, anomaly detection, and entity matching.
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 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
- Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role will fall within the range set forth below based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.
Base Compensation: $155,000.00-$203,000.00 Annually
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
#LI-KW1
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing
Job Description
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, 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.
As a Team Lead in Software Engineering, you will be responsible for providing project definition and implementation through hands-on management of multiple software development teams leveraging Agile Scrum development and project management best practices defined by the company. You will undertake the execution of software development projects to achieve the company’s strategic objectives and must work closely with Product Leaders & other managers.
CoStar is investing heavily in artificial intelligence to accelerate software delivery, improve platform observability, automate research and business workflows, enhance product experiences through intelligent agents and skills, and improve data quality across enterprise systems. Successful candidates will demonstrate a willingness to learn, adopt, and apply AI technologies responsibly to solve complex business and engineering challenges.
This position is located in Richmond, VA and offers a schedule of Monday to Thursday in office and the option to work from home on Friday.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for architecture, project ownership, and team leadership.
- Lead team(s) of talented software developers in building applications and platforms using modern object oriented programming languages.
- Act as a player-coach, who can mentor & coach highly productive team members.
- Promote can-do attitude, engineering mindset and collaboration as fundamental team values.
- Drive continuous improvement by focusing on engineering excellence.
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted software development practices to improve developer productivity, code quality, platform reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Leverage AI-powered monitoring, anomaly detection, replayability, and observability capabilities to improve system resiliency, incident response, root cause analysis, and customer experience.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to identify opportunities for intelligent processes that reduce manual effort, accelerate sales workflows, and improve operational effectiveness across CoStar platforms.
- Lead a team in designing, implementing, and governing AI-powered solutions including skills, agents, tools, and workflow automations that enhance both internal productivity and customer-facing products.
- Promote responsible AI adoption by ensuring solutions adhere to security, privacy, governance, and quality standards.
- Manage and coordinate projects within teams and across departments.
- Continually evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices that can be leveraged to strength CoStar’s technology platform and develop practices
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person university or college
- Track record of commitment to prior employers
- 5+ years’ experience in web development and database technologies
- 3+ years’ experience building large distributed, API-driven systems
- Strong understanding of OOP and software design patterns
- Experience using TypeScript, C#, SQL Server, AWS technologies, or similar tools
- Experience leading a technical team, working through complex requirements and offering relevant, timely technical solutions.
- Understanding AI technologies and has hands on experience in AI adoption and development.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; Must be able to communicate at a level appropriate to the audience (direct reports, peers and senior management)
- Ability to motivate and build high performance software development teams.
- Familiarity with modern AI platforms, large language models (LLMs), agent orchestration frameworks, or AI-assisted development tools.
- Understanding of observability, monitoring, replayability, telemetry analysis, and automated incident detection platforms.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Docker and container orchestration a plus.
- Experience building AI features with Bedrock or Azure
- Experience with OpenSearch is a plus
- Experience with React for frontend development is a plus
- Other technology areas we lean into; AWS S3, Lambda, SQS, Kafka, and Redis
- Experience developing or managing AI-powered applications, agents, tools, search experiences, or intelligent automation platforms.
- Experience leveraging AI to improve software engineering productivity, operational monitoring, research workflows, and data stewardship.
- Experience implementing AI-assisted data quality solutions including deduplication, enrichment, classification, anomaly detection, and entity matching.
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 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
- Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks
The final salary or hourly rate offered for this role will fall within the range set forth below based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.
Base Compensation: $155,000.00-$203,000.00 Annually
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
#LI-KW1
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Banking & Financial Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote engineering team lead jobs.
- 5 or more years of software engineering experience with at least 2 in a lead role
- Proven experience mentoring engineers and conducting regular one-on-ones
- Proficiency in at least one primary programming language such as Python, Java, or Go
- Experience running agile or scrum ceremonies including sprint planning and retrospectives
- Ability to define technical roadmaps and translate business requirements into engineering tasks
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Engineering Team Lead Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote engineering team lead openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and team size and apply directly without sorting through mixed location results.
Prove async leadership in your application materials
Remote hiring managers look for evidence that you can lead without constant synchronous touchpoints. Reference specific examples of written technical decisions, async code review processes you set up, or documentation you created to keep distributed engineers aligned.
Highlight cross-timezone delivery in your resume
Employers running distributed teams want leads who have shipped projects with engineers in multiple time zones. Call out the regions your team covered, how you coordinated handoffs, and what you did to keep delivery on schedule without overlapping hours.
Prepare for remote-specific interview scenarios
Remote engineering team lead interviews often include scenarios about managing underperformance you can't observe in person, running effective remote retrospectives, and keeping engineers engaged on a distributed team. Rehearse answers that name the tools you use, such as Notion, Linear, or Loom, and why.
Remote Engineering Team Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote engineering team lead job?
Target companies that already run distributed engineering teams, since they have hiring processes built around remote leads. Remote employers screen for async communication skills, written technical documentation, and the ability to unblock engineers without synchronous standups. Showing a history of mentoring engineers, driving delivery across time zones, and making decisions independently gives your application a clear edge over candidates with no remote management experience.
Which companies hire remote engineering team leads?
Remote engineering team lead roles are posted by Sangoma, CoStar, and ASML and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Remote-first software companies and distributed fintech, SaaS, and infrastructure teams make up the largest share of these openings.
Can you get a remote engineering team lead job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level lead roles are harder to land because employers need you to operate independently from day one. Early-career candidates break in by contributing to open-source projects with real code review responsibility, taking on informal tech lead duties at a current job, or joining smaller remote startups where lead responsibilities come earlier. Demonstrating async collaboration and written technical judgment matters more than a formal title.
Do you need a degree for remote engineering team lead jobs?
Not always. Remote employers hiring engineering team leads weigh demonstrated engineering output, delivery history, and the ability to grow and retain engineers far more heavily than credentials. A strong portfolio of shipped projects, evidence of technical mentorship, and measurable team results can carry an application further than a degree alone, particularly at remote-first startups and growth-stage technology companies.
Which industries hire the most remote engineering team leads?
Remote engineering team lead roles concentrate in Technology & Software and Banking & Financial Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Those sectors rely on distributed engineering teams where a remote team lead is essential for coordinating delivery across time zones and keeping autonomous engineers aligned.
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