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.
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 cloud-based end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.
As a Staff Software Engineer in the Search & Listings (SNL) organization, you will use your experience with microservices based architecture to build products that deliver high business impact for our customers. You will lead the design and development of search infrastructure, listing pipelines, enrichment services, and feed integrations to support an industry leading consumer experience while also supporting the growth of the world’s most scalable brokerage. You will lead a team to build products that drive discovery and inventory management, such as agent/consumer search, geospatial services, or property data mastering, leveraging data platforms and real-time syndication to power a world-class real estate discovery experience.
You are an engineer who is passionate about creating well-defined APIs that are easy to use. You feel it is critical that your voice is heard in product and business decisions. You love to learn, and equally love to share your knowledge with others. You are a great communicator and you take care to understand before making yourself understood.
Your design systems are fault tolerant, scalable, highly available, well-tested, eventually consistent, and follow best practices such as the single responsibility principle.
Your code is designed for modularity and re-use. You take pride in delivering solid code that is well-tested, peer-reviewed, and follows best practices. You have strong opinions on code structure, style, and development processes.
At Compass, You Will:
- Provide strategic direction and ownership of platform architecture, data ingestion and normalization, to deliver an industry leading search experience at scale.
- Independently define and lead the delivery of complex technical projects across the entire stack.
- Champion a culture of operational excellence by defining reliability KPIs, establishing accountability for service health, and leading architectural improvements that proactively reduce technical debt, manual toil, and infrastructure costs.
- Adopt and operationalize modern and emerging software patterns, including integrating AI, data pipelines, and telemetry systems to automate workflows
- Operate in a scalable engineering culture that leverages modern principles of AI assisted workflows, decoupled systems, and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring to drive efficiencies
- Inspire, recruit, and mentor fellow engineers.
- Join a great team with a lot of visibility and some challenging projects on the horizon
What We Look For:
- Education: BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
- Experience: 10+ years of experience developing comprehensive, well-tested, and high-performance software applications in languages such as Java or Go and technology such as gRPC, Thrift, and other server-to-server communication protocols , Kafka and event-driven systems.
- 5+ years using AWS / cloud technologies.
- A track record as a technical leader with cross-team impact.
- Understanding and adherence to industry-standard best practices in software development and architecture while keeping abreast of evolving technologies in AI
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
- Strong critical thinking skills, great communication skills
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
Perks that You Need to Know About:
Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental 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.
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Skills Required
- BS or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of professional software development experience with leading large-scale technical initiatives.
- Experience designing, scaling, or operating data pipelines, telemetry systems, large-scale observability infrastructure, or developer metrics frameworks.
- Hands-on experience integrating AI tools and capabilities into software engineering, automated workflows, or system triaging tools.
- Experience designing and operating platform systems on major cloud infrastructures (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Experience modernizing legacy systems, consolidating fragmented tooling, and driving platform standardization across multiple engineering teams.
- Strong track record of technical leadership, organizational influence, and cross-functional execution.
- Proficiency in Go and professional experience in one or more of Java, Python, or TypeScript.
- Deep familiarity with core SDLC infrastructure (build systems, local development environments, testing infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines).
- Experience driving platform adoption or data consolidation across an engineering organization of 1,000+ developers.
- Track record of building developer tools and translating internal customer feedback into reliable platform capabilities.
Compass Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Compass and has not been reviewed or approved by Compass.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are described as comprehensive, with some noting fully paid dependent coverage and solid plan options. Wellness resources and assistance programs further support overall health needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is characterized as generous for both birthing and non-birthing parents, supporting time at home. Company policies also reference family medical leave.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match alongside an employee stock purchase plan and equity grants adds long-term financial value. These elements broaden total rewards beyond base pay.
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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!
