Senior Engineering Manager

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New York, NY
167K-252K Annually
7+ Years Experience
Real Estate • Software • PropTech
At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world.
The Role
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a team focused on building tools to help real estate agents grow their business. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, overseeing the software development lifecycle, ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations, and driving innovation through collaboration with cross-functional teams.
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At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.

As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Business Growth team, you will lead a team dedicated to building tools that help agents grow their business and enhance engagement with their clients. This team focuses on empowering agents by developing solutions that optimize client interactions, drive business growth, and provide agents with the resources they need to succeed.

Your role will involve overseeing key tools and services that are essential to agent workflows and play a critical role in enhancing engagement and driving business success. This team requires a skilled manager who can maintain the highest operational standards while fostering productive discussions with stakeholders across various teams and departments. You will lead high-impact projects that align with top priorities in our technology roadmap and business objectives, working cross-functionally to ensure seamless integration across the broader platform.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will influence teams beyond your immediate organization and deliver results that drive significant organizational and company-wide impact. You’ll be responsible for leading a talented team of developers to deliver critical roadmap features that support agents in growing their business. Your focus will be on developing a strong, efficient team that embodies the values of Ownership, Innovation, and Speed, while fostering a culture of collaboration and trust. This role requires close partnership with Product Managers, Designers, and Staff Engineers to identify and deliver the best long-term solutions for agents and their clients.

You will play a key role in setting the direction, standards, and operational excellence for the Business Growth team and the overall engineering organization.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead, mentor, and grow an organization of talented managers and engineers. 
  • Participate in setting the organization’s goals, develop its roadmap with the organization, and often represent Transaction Platform interacting with senior leaders across the company.
  • Ensure that your team's software adheres to transaction and user data privacy compliance regulations.
  • Provide guidance and support in career development, skill enhancement, and performance management for team members.
  • Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
  • Collaborate with the technical team and product management to drive innovation, maintain code quality, and ensure adherence to software development best practices.
  • Work closely with senior leadership and other stakeholders to define, execute, and report on the software development strategy in alignment with the company's overall goals.
  • Identify and implement process improvements to enhance team efficiency and project delivery.
  • Collaborate with other engineering leaders to champion and evangelize a technical vision for engineering at Compass. 
  • Be a connector across engineering teams to drive sound technical and architecture decisions that help effectively scale our products, considering short and long-term risks.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of experience in software development and at least 7+ years of which are management experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • A highly technical, hands-on developer and an effective people manager with experience directly leading teams and other managers.
  • Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining web applications, distributed backend systems or data platforms.
  • Experience with technologies such as Python, Typescript, Java, Golang, AWS, Kafka, React.
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and inspire a team.
  • Proven track record of using agile principles with multiple teams and products to meet project goals and deliver high quality products.
  • Excellent communication skills, utilized to collaborate both within Engineering and across all functions of the company to drive engineering initiatives.
  • Excellent mentoring and review skills to help engineers make technical and career progress.
  • Exceptional focus on customers by building products that are stable and reliable.

Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $167,000-$252,000 annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.

Perks that You Need to Know About:

Participation in our incentive programs (which may include where eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, marriage leave, 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; and pet insurance.

 

Do your best work, be your authentic self.

At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world — a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive.  Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principles and our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
4,000 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

A real estate company with a purpose; we are building the first modern real estate platform, pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless.

Why Work With Us

We are a tech company reinventing the space.

To lead the industry requires the smartest tools built by the brightest minds across engineering, design, and strategy. Through our proprietary platform, Compass is changing how agents and clients navigate the process of finding or selling a home. Join our team today!

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