Staff Software Engineer, Compass
$152-229k
Real estate technology platform
Open for applications
Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$152-229k
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
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- A track record as a technical leader with cross-team impact
- 10+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance software applications
- 10+ years of programming experience in languages such as Java or Go
- Experience with gRPC, Thrift, and other server-to-server communication protocols
- Experience with Kafka and event-driven systems
- 5+ years using AWS / cloud technologies
- High proficiency designing and implementing microservices
- Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
- Strong critical thinking skills, great communication skills and passion for delivering an operational excellence
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- Experience with SEO is a huge plus
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer in the Business Growth organization, you will use your experience with microservices based architecture to build products that deliver high business impact for our customers
- You will lead design and develop services to support an industry leading consumer experience while also supporting the growth of the world’s most scalable brokerage
- You will lead a team dedicated to building tools that help agents grow their business and enhance engagement with their clients
- This team focuses on empowering agents by developing solutions that optimize client interactions, drive business growth, and provide agents with the resources they need to succeed
- Provide strategic direction and ownership to Compass software architecture
- 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
- Lead in the architecting of our distributed microservices architecture
- Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies
- Execute on standard agile development methodology
- 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 & 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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