Senior Software Engineer, Compass
$131-197k
+ Potential for bonuses and restricted stock units
Real estate technology platform
Be an early applicant
Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$131-197k
+ Potential for bonuses and restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- BS or MS in CS or EE, or equivalent
- 7+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance software applications in Java, Go or Python
- 3+ years experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS services, including EKS, S3, Redis, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Lambda, and MSK
- Expertise designing and extending Kafka and event-driven data ingestion and normalization services that perform at scale
- Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture
- A track record as a technical leader with cross-team impact
- Strong critical thinking skills, great communication skills, passion for delivering operational excellence and a sense of humor
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on a Listing Pipeline Team, you will work on projects that deliver the data for all new product capabilities to Compass agents and consumers. You will architect, implement, improve and scale the back-end services, all while collaborating cross-functionally with Product and multiple teams across the organization to work towards the best possible solutions
- As a Senior Engineer, you will use your experience with microservices architecture to influence key technology decisions for scalable performance and stability. With a strong sense of ownership, you bring expert-level industry skills to Compass in one or more of the preferred qualifications below.
- You are a pragmatic technologist who designs and delivers scalable, resilient systems while fostering collaboration and technical excellence. Beyond execution, you serve as a mentor, guiding a talented team of engineers while driving impactful, high-complexity projects. You lead by example—innovating, teaching, and shaping the future of Compass Engineering
- Build, develop, and scale platform pipelines that deliver property listings for real estate professionals, buyers, and sellers across the country
- Architect distributed microservices architecture
- Drive continuous improvement and optimization of processes to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall performance
- Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies
- Be self-reflective, solutions-driven, growth-minded, and take part in an inclusive environment where we collaborate without ego
- Inspire, recruit, and mentor fellow engineers
- Work closely with Product and adjacent Engineering teams to deliver business critical features to our customers
- Join a great team with high visibility and challenging projects on the horizon to help grow your career
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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