Senior Software Engineer, Compass
$110.8-166.1k
Real estate technology platform
Open for applications
Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$110.8-166.1k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance software applications with languages such as Java, Go, or Python
- Experience with gRPC, Thrift, and other server-to-server communication protocols
- Experience with Kafka and event-driven systems
- 3+ years using AWS / cloud technologies
- High proficiency designing and implementing microservices that are well tested, fault tolerant, and scalable
- Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
- Strong critical thinking skills, great communication skills and passion for delivering an operational excellence
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will use your experience with microservices based architecture to build products that deliver high business impact for our customers
- You will lead design and development of services to support an industry leading consumer experience while also supporting the growth of the world’s most scalable brokerage
- There is tremendous opportunity grow your career at Compass and positively impact how our customers interact with the Compass platform each day
- Build, develop, and scale the platform that empowers real estate professionals, buyers, and sellers
- Become a domain expert in real estate technology, serving as an empathetic partner to our customers
- Inspire, recruit, and mentor fellow engineers
- Architect distributed microservices architecture
- Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies
- Execute on standard agile development methodology
- Join a great team with high visibility and challenging projects on the horizon to help grow your career
Our take
Compass uses an AI-driven platform to smooth out and speed up the process of buying, selling, or renting property. It functions much like a traditional broker, but employs tech to reduce the time, uncertainty, cost and friction of transactions for buyers, sellers & agents.
It's disrupting a sector so far largely averse to tech innovation, allowing users to close deals in less time than the industry average of 30-45 days. Compass is now the largest independent real estate brokerage in the USA, with over 29,000 agents nationwide.
Despite being a leading residential brokerage and competing well, Compass has remained unprofitable. While the company is replanning its cost structure to be profitable over the next year, it announced its third round of payoffs in early January 2023. Its profit-generating plans include expanding into mortgages, escrow & title services.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Nov 2019
$500m
SERIES G
Jul 2019
$370m
SERIES G
Total funding: $2.0bn
Company benefits
- Flexible Working
- Work From Home Opportunities
- Paid Vacation, Holidays, Sick Time
- Paid Parental, Marriage, and Recharge Leave
- Medical, Tele-Health, Dental and Vision Benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Commuter Program
- Life and disability insurance
- Maven (a support system for new parents)
- Carrot (fertility benefits)
- UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pet Insurance
Company values
- Dream big
- Move fast
- Learn from reality
- Be solutions-driven
- Obsess about opportunity
- Collaborate without ego
- Maximise your strength
- Bounce back with passion
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
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Leadership
Robert Reffkin
(CEO)After 2 years at McKinsey, Robert worked as a Lazard Associate and White House Fellow. They joined Goldman Sachs in 2006, where they worked as VP of Principal Investment before leaving in 2012 to found Compass. Alongside this, Robert ran 50 marathons in 50 states to raise $1 million dollars for for youth education and enrichment programs.
People progressing
Neda joined Compass in 2018 as Chief of Staff to the CEO after a year at Sidewalk Labs. Following 4 months as Secretary to the Board, in April 2019 they were promoted to President of Compass East Division, and in January 2022 President of US Division.
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