Senior Software Engineer, Compass
Engineering Platforms
$155-197k
+ Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions)
Real estate technology platform
Job no longer available
Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$155-197k
+ Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on large-scale systems
- Proven ability to design and build complex distributed systems, ensuring reliability and scalability not just for a single team, but across a broader product surface
- Proficiency in Go and professional experience in one or more of the following: Java, Python, or TypeScript
- Extensive experience building and operating services on major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) with a focus on abstracting complexity for end-users
Desirable
- Experience building internal tools, libraries, or APIs that have been successfully adopted by multiple teams outside of your direct organization
- A history of modernizing legacy systems and successfully deprecating redundant infrastructure
- Ability to manage the full lifecycle of an internal developer platform, treating internal engineers as customers and focusing on "Golden Path" adoption
- Active experience in the hiring process and a track record of outsized impact with the continuous improvement of engineering culture
What the job involves
- The Engineering Platforms team provides the foundational infrastructure, automation, and tools that empower our engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate products with confidence, speed, and clarity
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will influence key technology decisions that shape the future of our entire engineering organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence and developer empowerment
- You are a pragmatic visionary who can "poke holes" in complex designs to prevent future debt, simplify sprawling systems, and deliver scalable, resilient solutions that save thousands of engineering hours
- Beyond execution, you serve as a mentor, guiding a talented team of engineers while driving impactful, high-complexity projects. You lead by example - innovating, teaching, and shaping the future of engineering platforms at Compass
- Contribute to the technical roadmap for our internal engineering platform, championing open standards and a best-in-class developer experience
- Architect, scale, and maintain our platform's core features - including IDEs, CLIs, CI/CD, developer monorepos, experimentation/feature flags, and observability - to meet the quality and performance needs of the entire engineering organization
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality internal tools and APIs to improve developer productivity. This includes building tools and services that guide engineers along the "golden path" for development and deployment
- Partner with internal engineering customers to understand pain points and translate them into improvements in system reliability, scalability, and quality across our entire ecosystem
- Design and develop advanced, automated systems to improve operational efficiency, including AI-driven workflows and the underlying systems that support them
- Drive operational excellence by establishing and refining standards for system reliability, performance, and monitoring, including SLAs and SLOs
- Partner with customer teams and stakeholders such as security and compliance to proactively identify infrastructure needs
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.
Recently, Compass acquired Anywhere Real Estate in a major leap that cements its place among the biggest players in US property. By uniting leading brokerage brands and expanding its agent network on a massive scale, Compass strengthens both its readch and its techn-driven platfrom. The move add new revenue opportunities and efficiencies, positioning the company to navigate today's tough housing market and shape the future of real estate.
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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 HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Robert Reffkin
(Founder & 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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