Staff Software Engineer, Compass
Search and Listings
Real estate technology platform
Job no longer available
Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- You are an engineer who is passionate about creating well-defined APIs that are easy to use. You feel it is critical that your voice is heard in product and business decisions
- You love to learn, and equally love to share your knowledge with others. You are a great communicator and you take care to understand before making yourself understood
- Your design systems are fault tolerant, scalable, highly available, well-tested, eventually consistent, and follow best practices such as the single responsibility principle
- Your code is designed for modularity and re-use. You take pride in delivering solid code that is well-tested, peer-reviewed, and follows best practices. You have strong opinions on code structure, style, and development processes
- Education: BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- Experience: 10+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance software applications in languages such as Java or Go and technology such as gRPC, Thrift, and other server-to-server communication protocols , Kafka and event-driven systems
- 5+ years using AWS / cloud technologies
- A track record as a technical leader with cross-team impact
- Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture while keeping abreast of evolving technologies in AI
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
- Strong critical thinking skills, great communication skills
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer in the Search & Listings (SNL) organization, you will use your experience with microservices based architecture to build products that deliver high business impact for our customers
- You will lead the design and development of search infrastructure, listing pipelines, enrichment services, and feed integrations to support an industry leading consumer experience while also supporting the growth of the world’s most scalable brokerage
- You will lead a team to build products that drive discovery and inventory management, such as agent/consumer search, geospatial services, or property data mastering, leveraging data platforms and real-time syndication to power a world-class real estate discovery experience
- Provide strategic direction and ownership of platform architecture, data ingestion and normalization, to deliver an industry leading search experience at scale
- Independently define and lead the delivery of complex technical projects across the entire stack
- Champion a culture of operational excellence by defining reliability KPIs, establishing accountability for service health, and leading architectural improvements that proactively reduce technical debt, manual toil, and infrastructure costs
- Adopt and operationalize modern and emerging software patterns, including integrating AI, data pipelines, and telemetry systems to automate workflows
- Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of AI assisted workflows, decoupled systems, and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies
- Inspire, recruit, and mentor fellow engineers
- Join a great team with a lot of visibility and some challenging projects on the horizon
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 and 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.
In 2025, 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 reach and its tech-driven platform. This adds new revenue opportunities, positioning the company to help shape the future of real estate.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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