Senior Software Engineer, Compass
$111-167k
Real estate technology platform
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Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$111-167k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
- Proficiency in Golang, with experience building scalable backend services and APIs
- Experience working with distributed systems and microservices, especially at scale—including shipping products used by thousands of users
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., Postgres, DynamoDB)
- Understanding of industry-standard development practices: version control, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring
- Strong communication and collaboration skills—comfortable working cross-functionally with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams
- A problem-solving mindset with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and scalability
- Experience with event-driven architecture, message queues (e.g., SQS, Kafka), or prior CRM or real estate platforms
What the job involves
- The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) team is responsible for building the tools that help Compass agents manage client relationships, organize contacts, and drive business outcomes. From automated marketing to lead tracking, contact insights, and communications (calling, texting, and email), we power the core workflows that agents rely on daily
- As a backend engineer on the CRM team, you’ll help us improve and scale our systems to support tens of thousands of agents managing millions of contacts and interactions
- Build and maintain backend services that power CRM workflows such as contact management, search, notifications, and job processing
- Design and implement scalable APIs and data pipelines using modern architecture patterns
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver high-quality features that enhance agent experience and system performance
- Participate in code reviews, write tests, and contribute to documentation and operational excellence initiatives
- Learn from and contribute to a team of experienced engineers while growing your skills in system design and distributed systems
- Leverage Gen AI tools to automate workflows and improve agent productivity
- Operate in a scalable engineering culture driven by decoupled systems and automated CI/CD, testing, and monitoring practices
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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