Senior Full Stack Engineer, Compass

$131-197k

React
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
Elasticsearch
Redis
Go
REST API
Senior and Expert level
New York
Compass

Real estate technology platform

Open for applications

Compass

Real estate technology platform

1001+ employees

B2CPropertyMarketplaceRentingReal Estate

Open for applications

$131-197k

React
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
Elasticsearch
Redis
Go
REST API
Senior and Expert level
New York

1001+ employees

B2CPropertyMarketplaceRentingReal Estate

Company mission

To help everyone find their place in the world.

Role

Who you are

  • BS or MS in CS or EE, or equivalent
  • Basic experience working with any geospatial library on the server side
  • Basic knowledge and interest in working with geospatial math
  • 7+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance applications
  • Proficiency in Java
  • Proficiency in Javascript/Typescript on the server side and browser
  • Basic experience with react
  • Experience designing and extending large-scale systems, including RESTful APIs, microservice architectures, and data ingestion methods
  • A track record as a technical leader with cross-team impact
  • Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture
  • Familiarity with AWS services, including S3, EKS, Redis, Lambda, and MSK
  • Experience with Go and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch is a plus

What the job involves

  • The Search 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
  • Their work encompasses everything from finding and paginating listings to sorting, clustering, and boosting search results, both in list and map views
  • We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who will own and enhance our Map Search experience
  • You will build new features and functionality, boost performance, and increase the reliability and accuracy of our Map Search results, all while keeping cost efficiency in mind
  • 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
  • Inspire, recruit, and mentor fellow engineers
  • Operate within a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of distributed systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiency
  • Be self-reflective, solutions-driven, growth-minded, and take part in an inclusive environment where we Collaborate Without Ego
  • Work closely with Product, Design, and adjacent Engineering teams to deliver business critical features to our customers

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

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

15% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)

Nov 2019

$500m

SERIES G

Jul 2019

$370m

SERIES G

Total funding: $2.0bn

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 values

  • Dream big
  • Move fast
  • Learn from reality
  • Be solutions-driven
  • Obsess about opportunity
  • Collaborate without ego
  • Maximise your strength
  • Bounce back with passion

Company HQ

Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY

Leadership

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.


People progressing

Neda joined Compass in 2018 as Chief of Staff to the CEO after a year at Sidewalk Labs. Following 4 months as Secretary to the Board, in April 2019 they were promoted to President of Compass East Division, and in January 2022 President of US Division.

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