1 month ago
Base Salary
$228k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic direction and ownership for platform architecture, data ingestion, and normalization supporting a scalable search experience.
- Lead the design and delivery of complex technical projects across the entire stack.
- Define reliability KPIs, improve service health, reduce technical debt and manual toil, and optimize infrastructure costs.
- Integrate AI, data pipelines, and telemetry systems to automate workflows.
- Develop fault-tolerant, scalable, highly available, modular, and well-tested software.
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to identify and deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Recruit, mentor, and inspire fellow engineers and provide technical leadership across teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, high-performance software applications using TypeScript, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS.
- 5+ years of experience with React and Node.js.
- 3+ years of experience using AWS or other cloud technologies.
- Track record of technical leadership and cross-team impact.
- Strong understanding of software development and architecture best practices, including operational excellence and evolving AI technologies.
- Strong familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Strong critical thinking, communication, design judgment, attention to detail, and technical empathy.
- Preferred experience with backend programming in Java, Golang, or Python.
- Preferred experience with Kafka, event-driven systems, gRPC, Thrift, and other server-to-server communication protocols.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $228,000-$240,000, with potential bonuses and restricted stock units.
- Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave.
- Medical, telehealth, 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.
- Participation in incentive programs that may include cash, equity, or commissions.
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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.