Engineering Manager, Compass
$143-216k
Real estate technology platform
Posted today
Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$143-216k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in Software Development
- 3+ years of experience in hiring, managing and developing software engineering teams of 5-10 engineers
- A highly technical, hands-on manager and an effective people manager with experience directly leading teams
- Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining distributed backend systems and data platforms
- Experience with technologies such as Python, Java, Golang, AWS, and Kafka
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team
- Proven track record of using agile principles with multiple teams and products to meet project goals and deliver high quality products
- Excellent communication skills, utilized to collaborate both within Engineering and across all functions of the company to drive engineering initiatives
- Excellent mentoring and review skills to help engineers make technical and career progress
- Exceptional focus on customers by building products that are stable and reliable
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager in the Search & Listings (S&L) organization, you will lead a team at the center of a real estate technology platform that simplifies the process of finding, buying, and selling homes
- S&L encompasses bringing in property and listing data from hundreds of sources nationwide, cleaning the data and making them accessible across our customer platform, and building rich experiences for agents and consumers to search, track, share, and explore the properties and listings
- Our tools are foundational in enabling the entire Compass platform as a place which enables agents to work more efficiently, putting time back in their hands to grow their businesses
- You will oversee critical systems which house and transform real estate data from hundreds of Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) nationwide to power the Compass platform and features such as Listing Pages and Search, which are foundational to our agent workflows
- Given its data focus, its central position within the Compass platform, and its integration with numerous core products, this role requires a manager with both engineering and data pipelines experience who is skilled in collaborating cross-functionally with various teams
- Your responsibilities include managing a talented team of developers, delivering critical features, optimizing the data pipelines for efficiency and growth, and fostering a culture of collaboration and trust
- You will work closely with Product Managers, Data Analysts, and Staff Engineers to create scalable, reliable, and innovative solutions that address customer needs and advance company-wide goals
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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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 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
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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.
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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