Base Salary
$228k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic direction and ownership of frontend and platform architecture, data ingestion, and normalization for scalable search and transaction experiences.
- Lead the design, development, and delivery of complex technical projects across the stack.
- Define reliability KPIs, improve service health, and reduce technical debt, manual toil, and infrastructure costs.
- Integrate AI, data pipelines, and telemetry systems to automate workflows and improve engineering efficiency.
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver customer-focused transaction management features.
- Recruit, mentor, and inspire fellow engineers while providing technical leadership across teams.
Requirements
- BS 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 NodeJS.
- 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 familiarity with continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines, containerization, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Strong critical thinking, communication, technical empathy, attention to detail, and product design judgment.
- Backend programming experience with Java, Golang, or Python is preferred.
- Experience with Kafka, event-driven systems, gRPC, Thrift, and other server-to-server communication protocols is preferred.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $228,000-$240,000, with potential bonuses and restricted stock units excluded from this benefits summary.
- Benefits include paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, recharge leave, medical, tele-health, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, life and disability insurance, pet insurance, and employee assistance services.
- Additional programs include Maven support for new parents, Carrot fertility benefits, and UrbanSitter caregiver referrals.
- The role offers professional growth opportunities within a collaborative, energetic, and diversity-focused workplace.
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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.