23 days ago
Base Salary
$228k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic direction and ownership for platform architecture, data ingestion, and normalization supporting a scalable search and transaction experience.
- Independently define and lead complex technical projects across the full stack.
- Establish reliability KPIs, service-health accountability, and architectural improvements that reduce technical debt, manual toil, and infrastructure costs.
- Adopt and operationalize software patterns involving AI, data pipelines, telemetry systems, automated workflows, and scalable decoupled systems.
- Deliver modular, reusable, fault-tolerant, highly available, well-tested, and eventually consistent systems.
- Collaborate with product, design, and multiple engineering teams to identify and deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Inspire, recruit, mentor, and share knowledge with fellow engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance software applications with TypeScript, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS.
- 5+ years of experience with React and Node.js.
- 3+ years of experience using AWS or other cloud technologies.
- Demonstrated technical leadership with cross-team impact and strong software architecture and development best practices.
- Strong attention to product design, usability, detail, critical thinking, communication, and operational excellence.
- Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, containerization, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Backend programming experience with Java, Golang, or Python is preferred.
- Experience with Kafka, event-driven systems, gRPC, Thrift, or other server-to-server communication protocols is preferred.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $228,000–$240,000, with possible bonuses and restricted stock units excluded from the base salary.
- Participation in incentive programs that may include cash, equity, or commissions.
- Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave.
- Medical, tele-health, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k), flexible spending accounts, commuter program, life and disability insurance, and pet insurance.
- Maven new-parent support, Carrot fertility benefits, UrbanSitter caregiver referrals, and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Professional growth opportunities and a collaborative, inclusive workplace.
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About Compass
Compass is a residential real estate brokerage and technology company that builds an end-to-end platform for agents and their clients. It earns primarily from brokerage commissions while providing CRM, marketing, listings, and transaction tools to help agents serve home buyers and sellers. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Compass operates across major U.S. markets and is publicly traded on the NYSE.