Senior Software Engineer II

Compass•New York, NY

About The Position

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. We are hiring for multiple positions across core domains of our platform spanning search, authorization, and end-to-end transaction management. 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 a tremendous opportunity to grow your career at Compass and positively impact how our customers interact with the Compass platform each day.

Requirements

BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
7+ 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

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions).
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
Pet insurance