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.
The Search Team is at the heart of the Compass Engineering organization, driving the search capabilities across our suite of real estate tools. This team is responsible for ingesting listing data and providing it through REST APIs that serve various front-end components on our website and mobile apps. Their work encompasses everything from finding and paginating listings to sorting, clustering, and boosting search results, both in list and map views.
We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who will own and enhance our Map Search experience. You will build new features and functionality, boost performance, and increase the reliability and accuracy of our Map Search results, all while keeping cost efficiency in mind.
At Compass, You Will:
- 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.
- Operate within a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of distributed systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiency.
- Be self-reflective, solutions-driven, growth-minded, and take part in an inclusive environment where we Collaborate Without Ego.
- Work closely with Product, Design, and adjacent Engineering teams to deliver business critical features to our customers
What We Look For:
- BS or MS in CS or EE, or equivalent.
- Basic experience working with any geospatial library on the server side.
- Basic knowledge and interest in working with geospatial math.
- 7+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance applications.
- Proficiency in Java.
- Proficiency in Javascript/Typescript on the server side and browser.
- Basic experience with react.
- Experience designing and extending large-scale systems, including RESTful APIs, microservice architectures, and data ingestion methods.
- A track record as a technical leader with cross-team impact.
- Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture.
- Familiarity with AWS services, including S3, EKS, Redis, Lambda, and MSK.
- Experience with Go and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch is a plus.
Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $131,000-$197,000 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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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!