Compass

Senior Software Engineer I

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1 month ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $166k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with departmental SMEs to translate manual operational tasks into production-grade automated AI pipelines.
  • Build direct integrations, custom agents, multi-agent workflows, RAG pipelines, semantic document routers, and state-machine-driven automations.
  • Develop integrations using Compass’s AI Platform APIs and provide feedback to the Platform Team on infrastructure and gateway design.
  • Enforce data security and privacy standards for sensitive company and customer PII.
  • Review code, establish testing frameworks for LLM outputs, and maintain code quality and governance.
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers within the dedicated pod.
  • Design and improve operational metrics, logging, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and user experience.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating production web applications, API integrations, or business-critical backend services.
  • 1+ years of experience building LLM-powered applications, including prompt engineering, RAG, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, non-technical partners, or product managers to deliver user-centric software.
  • Understanding of secure coding, OAuth API authentication, and handling sensitive or regulated data such as PII and financial records.
  • Experience with RESTful or GraphQL APIs, message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, asynchronous job processing, and third-party SaaS integrations.
  • Experience deploying and monitoring applications in AWS or similar cloud environments with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.
  • Ability to make pragmatic technical trade-offs focused on business value and operational stability.

Benefits

  • Base pay range of $149,580-$166,200, with potential bonuses and restricted stock units.
  • 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, pet insurance, and Employee Assistance Program.
  • Maven support for new parents, Carrot fertility benefits, and UrbanSitter caregiver referrals.
  • Participation in incentive programs that may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSDockerGraphQLRabbitMQ
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About Compass

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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