Senior Software Engineer, Compass
$111-167k
Real estate technology platform
Open for applications
Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$111-167k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- BS or MS in CS or EE, or equivalent
- A track record as a technical leader with teamwide impact
- 4+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance search applications
- 4+ years of programming experience in languages such as Java, Python, and Go (we utilize all three at Compass)
- Experience designing and extending large-scale search systems, including RESTful APIs, microservice architectures, data ingestion methods, and search methodologies
- Experience in fine-tuning performance and using data to optimize end-to-end latency and system behavior
- Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture
- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
- Familiarity with AWS services, including Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, EKS, S3, Redis, Lambda, and MSK
What the job involves
- The Search Backend team is at the heart of the Compass Engineering organization, driving the search capabilities across our suite of real estate tools
- This team is responsible for ingesting listing data and providing it through REST APIs that serve various front-end components on our website and mobile apps, as well as other Backend services which rely on listing search results
- Their work encompasses everything from finding and paginating listings to sorting, clustering, and boosting search results, both in list and map views
- We're creating a cutting-edge platform to introduce numerous game-changing products and features for real estate agents
- Joining the Search Backend team means playing a pivotal role in enhancing an already impressive product
- You'll contribute to platform development, improving search quality, enhancing accuracy, boosting performance, and optimizing costs
- As an engineer on the Search Backend team, you’ll work on both infrastructure-focused and product-facing projects
- You’ll contribute to areas like real-time search APIs, relevance tuning, and interactive map-based search experiences
- The ideal candidate combines backend engineering depth with curiosity about the product experience
- Build, develop, and scale the platform that empowers real estate professionals, buyers, and sellers
- Become a domain expert in real estate technology, serving as an empathetic partner to our customers
- Optimize performance and cost of listing ingestion and retrieval pipelines
- Collaborate cross-functionally to build new search experiences across mobile and web
- Inspire, recruit, and mentor fellow engineers, and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and learning
- Operate within a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of distributed systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiency
Our take
Compass uses an AI-driven platform to smooth out and speed up the process of buying, selling, or renting property. It functions much like a traditional broker, but employs tech to reduce the time, uncertainty, cost and friction of transactions for buyers, sellers & agents.
It's disrupting a sector so far largely averse to tech innovation, allowing users to close deals in less time than the industry average of 30-45 days. Compass is now the largest independent real estate brokerage in the USA, with over 29,000 agents nationwide.
Despite being a leading residential brokerage and competing well, Compass has remained unprofitable. While the company is replanning its cost structure to be profitable over the next year, it announced its third round of payoffs in early January 2023. Its profit-generating plans include expanding into mortgages, escrow & title services.
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Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2019
$370m
SERIES G
Sep 2018
$400m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Flexible Working
- Work From Home Opportunities
- Paid Vacation, Holidays, Sick Time
- Paid Parental, Marriage, and Recharge Leave
- Medical, Tele-Health, Dental and Vision Benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Commuter Program
- Life and disability insurance
- Maven (a support system for new parents)
- Carrot (fertility benefits)
- UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pet Insurance
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Robert Reffkin
(CEO)After 2 years at McKinsey, Robert worked as a Lazard Associate and White House Fellow. They joined Goldman Sachs in 2006, where they worked as VP of Principal Investment before leaving in 2012 to found Compass. Alongside this, Robert ran 50 marathons in 50 states to raise $1 million dollars for for youth education and enrichment programs.
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