Base Salary
$228k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic direction and ownership for platform architecture, data ingestion, and normalization supporting a scalable search experience.
- Independently define and lead complex technical projects across the entire software stack.
- Define reliability KPIs, improve service health, and lead architectural changes that reduce technical debt, manual toil, and infrastructure costs.
- Adopt and operationalize software patterns involving AI, data pipelines, telemetry systems, decoupled systems, and automated development workflows.
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver user-friendly transaction management features.
- Recruit, inspire, and mentor fellow engineers.
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.
- Demonstrated technical leadership with cross-team impact and strong software architecture knowledge.
- 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.
- 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 offered separately.
- Benefits include paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, recharge leave, medical, tele-health, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k), FSAs, commuter benefits, life and disability insurance, pet insurance, and employee support programs.
- Additional programs include Maven, Carrot, UrbanSitter, and an Employee Assistance Program.
Tech Stack
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About Compass
Compass is a real estate technology company with a powerful end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling workflow. We deliver an incomparable experience to both agents and their clients all in service of the Compass mission: to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012 by Ori Allon and Robert Reffkin, Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara & Montecito, San Diego, Seattle & Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin & Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. Learn more and find your place at www.compass.com and www.compass.com/careers. Compass only reaches out to applicants from a @compass.com domain and does not prompt applicants to download software or files as part of its application process.