Senior Engineering Manager, Compass
$167-252k
Real estate technology platform
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Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$167-252k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Platform & DevOps Expertise: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated success building and operating developer platforms and/or cloud infrastructures
- Specific experience with either observability, infrastructure as code, or FinOps is highly desirable
- Management Experience: A highly technical, hands-on technical leader and an effective people manager with 6+ years of experience directly leading geographically distributed teams and staff-level engineers
- Hands-On Knowledge: Familiar with modern DevOps toolchains (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Visionary: Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to set long-term technical visions and strategies that inspire the team
- Customer Centric: Exceptional focus on customers by building infrastructure products that are stable and reliable
- Collaborative Communicator: Skilled at building trust across teams, with the ability to balance technical trade-offs and business priorities
- Data-Driven: Comfortable using metrics to inform decision-making and optimize systems
What the job involves
- As the Senior Engineering Manager focused on Developer Platforms within the Tech Infra organization, you will be responsible for the strategy and execution for delivering software that improves Observability, Infrastructure as Code, and FinOps across the Compass engineering organization
- Your team plays a significant role in defining, proliferating, and maintaining best practices that allow teams to architect and deliver reliable, performant, and efficient services that power Compass's real estate platform
- The individual will need to be customer focused (internal engineers) and excel at collaborating with the rest of teams within the organization for alignment
- Nurture and Develop Talent: Lead a high-performing team by inspiring, mentoring, and guiding managers and engineers to achieve their full potential
- Foster Growth & Performance: Provide individualized coaching, career support, and performance management to help team members advance their skills and thrive
- Define Organizational Roadmap: Drive the strategic direction and collaborate on long-term goals for the tech organization, serving as a key partner with senior leadership
- Stay Ahead of Emerging Trends: Research and adopt cutting-edge technologies, best practices, and frameworks that promote efficiency and innovation across the engineering org
- Scale with Sound Architecture: Facilitate technical decision-making across teams to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and mindful of short- and long-term risks
- Streamline & Innovate: Work with product and engineering teams to automate processes, bolster service quality, and maintain a commitment to responsible development practices
- Champion Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate closely with fellow engineering leaders to advocate and evangelize a cohesive technical vision that advances our shared business objectives
- Communicate Impact & Results: Partner with stakeholders to ensure technical solutions align with overarching goals, effectively conveying how engineering efforts drive business value
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 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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